CGAL

Provides easy access to efficient and reliable geometric algorithms in the form of a C library
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  • License:
  • GPL
  • Publisher Name:
  • Sylvain Pion
  • Operating Systems:
  • Windows All
  • File Size:
  • 10.1 MB

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CGAL Description

CGAL is used in various areas needing geometric computation, such as: computer graphics, computer aided design and modeling, molecular biology, medical imaging, geographic information systems, scientific visualization, robotics and motion planning, mesh g The Computational Geometry Algorithms Library (CGAL), offers data structures and algorithms like triangulations (2D constrained triangulations and Delaunay triangulations in 2D and 3D), Voronoi diagrams (for 2D and 3D points, 2D additively weighted Voronoi diagrams, and segment Voronoi diagrams), Boolean operations on polygons and polyhedra, arrangements of curves and their applications (2D and 3D envelopes, Minkowski sums) mesh generation (2D Delaunay mesh generation and 3D surface mesh generation, skin surfaces), geometry processing (surface mesh simplification, subdivision and parameterization, as well as estimation of local differential properties, and approximation of ridges and umbilics), alpha shapes, convex hull algorithms (in 2D, 3D and dD), operations on polygons (straight skeleton and offset polygon), search structures (kd trees for nearest neighbor search, and range and segment trees), interpolation (natural neighbor interpolation and placement of streamlines), shape analysis, fitting, and distances (smallest enclosing sphere of points or spheres, smallest enclosing ellipsoid of points, principal component analysis), and kinetic data structures. All these data structures and algorithms operate on geometric objects like points and segments, and perform geometric tests on them. These objects and predicates are regrouped in CGAL Kernels. Finally, the Support Library offers geometric object generators and spatial sorting functions, as well as a matrix search framework and a solver for linear and quadratic programs. CGAL further offers interfaces to third party software such as the GUI libraries Qt, Geomview, and the Boost Graph Library.


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