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[Andreas Fabri <>]

Hello,

Do you can post a typical data set, that is two point sets
interior-points.xyz and boundary-points.xyz to get a better
understanding of your use case.

Best,

Andreas

On 18/04/2017 08:50, cgal_2154 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am attempting to use the Advancing Front Surface Reconstruction method to
> take a set of points and produce a mesh from them. The problem I am facing
> is that the method often produces an undesired result by producing undesired
> facets between points that I want to be on the boundary of the mesh. What I
> want to do is control what the method uses as the boundary of the mesh by
> giving the function a set of desired boundary points. A simple example of
> this problem I am facing is in the images i have attached : the first image
> is the mesh i want to produce, and the second image is the mesh that
> Advancing Front Surface Reconstruction produces, the problem here being it
> doesn't produce the desired concave results at the top of the mesh because
> it creates facets between points I want to be on the boundary. I was
> wondering if there was a way to accomplish this setting of boundary points
> with the Advancing Front Surface Reconstruction function, or if there exists
> a better method within CGAL to accomplish this task.
>
> Thank you for your time
>
> <http://cgal-discuss.949826.n4.nabble.com/file/n4662684/desired_result.png>
> <http://cgal-discuss.949826.n4.nabble.com/file/n4662684/actual_output.png>
>
>
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