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[rahulverma88 <>]

I've actually been trying to use a Python interface to CGAL for a while now,
and I have not been able to do much with the CGAL Python bindings
(https://github.com/CGAL/cgal-swig-bindings) - the actual CGAL library is
far more feature-rich. I have found it much more useful to write out your
intersection functions in C++, and then pass it your points/lines as arrays
from Python using SWIG.

So your C++ function prototype looks like:

<return_type> cpp_function_for_mesh_intersection(double *xs, double *ys,
double *zs, int num_points);

Using SWIG, this can be compiled to a Python module,
and then your Python call will look like:

mesh_intersection_module.cpp_function_for_mesh_intersection(xs, ys, zs,
num_points)

It is not trivial to do all this, but it shouldn't be that hard either. I
don't think this is the best solution, but it worked for the specific thing
I was trying to do.



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