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Release History
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Release 4.12
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Release date: April 2018
### 2D Movable Separability of Sets (new package)
- A new package called "2D Movable Separability of Sets" has been
introduced. It handles a class of problems that deal with moving
sets of objects in the plane; the challenge is to avoid collisions
between the objects while considering different kinds of motions and
various definitions of separation.
At this point this package consists of the implementations of
various predicates and constructions related to castings of
polygonal objects. In particular, it can be used to determine
whether a feasible mold for a polygonal object does exist. If a mold
exists, the package can also be used to compute all possible
orientations of the feasible molds and the corresponding motions
needed to remove the casted object from the mold.
### Classification (new package)
- This package offers an algorithm that classifies a data set into a
user-defined set of labels (such as ground, vegetation, buildings,
etc.). A flexible API is provided so that users can classify any
type of data, compute their own local features on the input data
set, and define their own labels.
### Kinetic Data Structures (removed package)
- This package has been removed from CGAL-4.12. Users of the package
will have to keep using the source code available in CGAL-4.11 or
earlier.
### 2D Alpha Shapes
- It is now possible to use `CGAL::Periodic_2_triangulation_2` as
underlying triangulation for `Alpha_shape_2`.
### 2D Periodic Triangulations
- **Breaking change**: The class
`Periodic_2_triangulation_hierarchy_vertex_base_2` (and its
corresponding header) have been removed. Users should directly use
the class `Triangulation_hierarchy_vertex_base_2`, which is
identical.
- **Breaking change**: The functions `circumcenter()`,
`side_of_oriented_circle()`, and `is_extensible_in_1_sheet_h[12]()`
are related to Delaunay triangulations and have been moved from
`Periodic_2_triangulation_2` to
`Periodic_2_Delaunay_triangulation_2`.
### 3D Surface Mesh Generation
- Add the function `facets_in_complex_2_to_triangle_mesh()` that
exports `Surface_mesh_complex_2_in_triangulation_3` facets into
a `MutableFaceGraph`.
### 3D Mesh Generation
- Add the function `facets_in_complex_3_to_triangle_mesh()` that
exports `Mesh_complex_3_in_triangulation_3` facets into a
`MutableFaceGraph`.
- **Breaking change:** The concept `MeshDomainWithFeatures_3` has been
modified, to improve the performance and the reliability of the
sampling of 1D curves of the domain.
- Add the ability to ensure that the output mesh surface describes a
manifold, when the input surface is a manifold. New named parameters
`manifold()`, `manifold_with_boundary()`, and `non_manifold()` are
added.
### Optimal Transportation Curve Reconstruction
- New method `run_under_wasserstein_tolerance()` which allows the
user to perform curve reconstruction by relying on a threshold on
the Wasserstein distance. This is useful when the number of edges
in the expected output reconstruction is not known.
### Polygon Mesh Processing
- Added two functions for orienting connected components :
- `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::orient()`
- `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::orient_to_bound_a_volume()`
- Added a new function for intersection tests between triangle meshes
and/or polylines or range of polylines, and another one to report
all the pairs of meshes intersecting from a range of meshes:
- `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::do_intersect()`
- `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::intersecting_meshes()`
- Added new functions for feature detection and feature-guided
segmentation:
- `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::detect_sharp_edges()`
- `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::detect_vertex_incident_patches()`
- `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::sharp_edges_segmentation()`
### Point Set Shape Detection
- New algorithm: `CGAL::Region_growing`. This is a deterministic
alternative to RANSAC for plane detection.
- **Breaking change**: the API of `CGAL::regularize_planes()` is
generalized to accept other types of input than the RANSAC output.
- Add a callback mechanism for both `CGAL::Efficient_RANSAC` and
`CGAL::Region_growing`.
### Point Set Processing
- **Breaking change**: the API of `CGAL::structure_point_set()` is
generalized to accept other types of input than the RANSAC output.
- **Breaking change**: the API of all functions of Point Set
Processing is modified to use ranges (instead of iterators) and
Named Parameters (similarly to the API of Polygon Mesh
Processing). The old API is kept as deprecated.
### CGAL and the Boost Graph Library (BGL)
- Added helper function `CGAL::expand_face_selection_for_removal` that
expands a face selection to avoid creating a non manifold mesh when
removing the selected faces.
- Added support for dynamic property maps.
- Added an interface to the [METIS library], which allows to partition
any mesh that is a model of `FaceListGraph`. Wrappers to the
METIS functions `METIS_PartMeshNodal` and `METIS_PartMeshDual` are
offered.
[METIS library]: http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/metis/overview
### 2D Arrangements
- When removing an edge from an arrangement and the user has requested to
remove the end-vertices in case they become redundant (either isolated or
approach infinity), defer the removal of the such end-vertices to occur
after the observer is notified that the edge has been removed. This is
symmetric (opposite) to the order of notification when an edge is inserted.
The user can restore old (non-symmetric) behaviour by defining the macro:
`CGAL_NON_SYMETRICAL_OBSERVER_EDGE_REMOVAL_BACKWARD_COMPATIBILITY`
Release 4.11
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Release date: September 2017
### 3D Periodic Regular Triangulations (new feature)
- Added the class `Periodic_3_regular_triangulation_3`, which provides
functionality for 3D periodic weighted Delaunay triangulations. The
construction is fully dynamic: it provides both point insertion and
vertex removal.
### dD Regular Triangulations (new feature)
- Added the class `Regular_triangulation`, which provides
functionality for dD weighted Delaunay triangulations. Note that the
removal of points is not yet supported.
### 2D and 3D Linear Geometry Kernel (breaking change)
- **Breaking change**: The dangerous implicit conversions between
weighted points and points in the concept `Kernel` have been
disabled. Constructors offering to build a weighted point from a
point (and reversely) are still requested by the concept `Kernel`
but must now be marked with the `explicit` specifier.
- **Breaking change**: The removal of implicit conversions between
points and weighted points in the concept `Kernel` has incidentally
created various minor breaking changes in the following packages: 2D
Alpha Shapes, 2D and 3D Triangulations, and 3D Mesh Generation. See
the full changelog for details.
### Surface Mesh
- **Breaking change**:
`operator >>(std::istream&, Surface_mesh&)` no longer clears
the surface mesh.
### Triangulated Surface Mesh Parameterization (breaking change)
- **Breaking change**: The package has been rewritten and can operate
on any model of the `MutableFaceGraph` concept. All previous
parameterization methods are still offered, although with a
different, simpler API. The documentation has been updated and
offers a gentle introduction to the new API. Users who wish to use
the former API must use a version prior to 4.11.
- **Breaking change**: The adapter to add virtual seams is now the
class `CGAL::Seam_mesh` in the package *CGAL and the BGL*.
- **Breaking change**: The package has been restructured and most
headers have been moved. In a general manner, users should replace
`<CGAL/XXX.h>` with `<CGAL/Surface_mesh_parameterization/XXX.h>`
- Add the *As Rigid As Possible Parameterization* method. This
parameterization allows the user to prioritize angle preservation,
shape preservation, or a balance of both.
- Add the *Orbifold Tutte Embedding* method. This parameterization
method allows to parameterize meshes that are topological spheres.
### 3D Surface Subdivision Methods (breaking changes)
- The subdivision algorithms now work on any model of a
`MutableFaceGraph`. A new API to the subdivision methods is offered,
which uses optional named parameters to pass the number of
iterations and a vertex property map.
- **Breaking change**: Removed the headers
`<CGAL/Subdivision_method_3.h>` and `<CGAL/Subdivision_mask_3.h>`.
The headers `<CGAL/Subdivision_method_3/subdivision_methods_3.h>`
and `<CGAL/Subdivision_method_3/subdivision_masks_3.h>` should
respectively be used instead.
- Sqrt3 subdivision can now handle input surfaces with a border.
### Scale-Space Surface Reconstruction (breaking change)
- **Breaking change**: the API was rewritten to separate the smoothing
and meshing algorithm and making it possible for the user to use
different ones. The default algorithms used are the same as before
this API change, but methods are moved to the classes
`Weighted_PCA_smoother` and `Alpha_shape_mesher`.
- Alternative smoothing and meshing methods are provided:
`Jet_smoother` and `Advancing_front_mesher`.
### 2D Alpha Shapes
- **Breaking change**: Mirrored the concepts of the 2D alpha shape
package with those of the 3D Alpha Shapes package. Consequently, a
new concept, `WeightedAlphaShapeTraits_2`, is introduced to provide
requirements on the traits class for 2D weighted alpha shapes. All
models of the concept `Kernel` are models of this new concept.
- The concept `AlphaShapeTraits_2` now provides requirements on the
traits class for 2D basic alpha shapes, and refines
`DelaunayTriangulationTraits_2`.
### Interpolation
- **Breaking change**: The concept `GradientFittingTraits` now
additionally requests a weighted point type `Weighted_point_d` and a
functor `Construct_point_d`. The model
`CGAL::Interpolation_gradient_fitting_traits_2` has been
appropriately modified to still be a model of the concept
`GradientFittingTraits`.
### 2D and 3D Triangulations
- **Breaking change**: Added a new functor requirement,
`Construct_point_2`, to the concepts `TriangulationTraits_2` and
`RegularTriangulationTraits_2` and a new functor requirement,
`Construct_point_3`, to the concepts `TriangulationTraits_3` and
`RegularTriangulationTraits_3`. All models of the concept `Kernel`
already provide these functors.
- **Breaking change**: Introduced the concepts
`RegularTriangulationVertexBase_2` and
`RegularTriangulationVertexBase_3`. These concepts describe the
requirements on classes meant to represent a vertex of a regular
triangulation. Concepts that previously refined
`TriangulationVertexBase_2` or `TriangulationVertexBase_3` but
described in fact a vertex class used in a regular triangulation,
such as the concept `MeshVertexBase_3` in the 3D mesh generation
package, now refine the corresponding new regular vertex concept.
- **Breaking change**: Uniformized the point type across all vertex
and cell concepts. The triangulation point type name is now always
`Point`. Note that this does not change the requirements but only
the name: `Point` is still expected to be equal to
`Traits::Point_[23]` for basic and Delaunay triangulations or to
`Traits::Weighted_point_[23]` for regular triangulations.
Consequently:
- The concept `RegularTriangulationVertexBase_2` now requests a
`Point` type (equal to `Traits::Weighted_point_2`)
- The concept `RegularTriangulationCellBase_3` now requests a
`Point` type instead of a `Weighted_point` type (but still equal
to `Traits::Weighted_point_3`)
- The concept `DelaunayTriangulationCellBase_3` now requests a
`Point` type instead of a `Point_3` type (but still equal to
`Traits::Point_3`).
- Introduced a new concept,
`RegularTriangulationCellBaseWithWeightedCircumcenter_3`, which
describes the requirements on a cell of a regular triangulation that
caches its circumcenter. The existing class
`Regular_triangulation_cell_base_with_weighted_circumcenter_3` is
the default model of this concept.
- Added a new 3D traits class,
`Robust_weighted_circumcenter_filtered_traits_3` which provides
robust versions of the kernel functors
`Construct_weighted_circumcenter_3`, `Compute_squared_radius_3`, and
`Compute_squared_radius_smallest_orthogonal_sphere_3`. This class
can be used as traits class in the the `Mesh_3` package to
efficiently yet robustly generate 3D meshes.
- Add a new type of polyhedral domain with features,
`Polyhedral_complex_mesh_domain_3`. The domain is defined by a
collection of triangulated surfaces, forming a complex.
### 3D Periodic Triangulations
- Added new locate and geometric access functions for 3D periodic
triangulations.
- The class `Periodic_3_Delaunay_triangulation_traits_3` now inherits
`Periodic_3_triangulation_traits_3`.
- **Breaking change**: Some geometric access functions in
`Periodic_3_triangulation_3` were renamed. The introduction of
`Periodic_3_regular_triangulation_3` required to distinguish between
functions such as `segment()` returning a segment of weightless
points, or a segment of weighted points. As a general rule, previous
geometrical access functions will return objects with point type
that of the triangulation (thus, weighted objects when using
weighted triangulations) and functions containing `construct` in the
name will always return weightless geometrical objects.
- **Breaking change**: The concept `Periodic_3TriangulationTraits_3`
now requests a domain getter: `get_domain()`.
- Introduced a new concept,
`RegularTriangulationCellBaseWithWeightedCircumcenter_3`, which
describes the requirements on a cell of a regular triangulation that
caches its circumcenter. The existing class
`Regular_triangulation_cell_base_with_weighted_circumcenter_3` is
the default model of this concept.
### 3D Mesh Generation
- **Breaking change**: The type of the surface center in the concept
`MeshCellBase_3` has been changed from `Triangulation::Point` to
`TriangulationTraits::Point_3` to reflect that it is a weightless
point.
- **Breaking change**: The function `invalidate_circumcenter()` of the
concept `MeshCellBase_3` is renamed to
`invalidate_weighted_circumcenter_cache()` and moved to the new
concept `RegularTriangulationCellBaseWithWeightedCircumcenter_3`,
which the concept `MeshCellBase_3` now refines.
### Poisson Surface Reconstruction
- A new global function
`CGAL::poisson_surface_reconstruction_delaunay()` is provided in
addition to the current class-based API in order to make it easier
to use.
### Point Set Processing
- New functions to read from and write to LAS/LAZ files (LIDAR
format), with or without taking additional properties into account.
- **Breaking change:** The API of the PLY function to read points with
properties is modified for unification with LAS (see
`CGAL::read_ply_points_with_properties()`). A new function to write
PLY with properties is provided
(`CGAL::write_ply_points_with_properties()`).
### Spatial Searching
- Add function `Kd_tree::remove(Point)`.
### 3D Fast Intersection and Distance Computation
- Add a template parameter to `AABB_traits` for a property map that
associates a bounding box to a primitive
### CGAL and the Boost Graph Library
- Add a partial specialization for the class
`CGAL::Linear_cell_complex_for_combinatorial_map` so that it is a
model of the graph concepts `BidirectionalGraph` and
`EdgeAndVertexListGraph` and of the concept `MutableFaceGraph`. This
class can thus now be used in all BGL functions and algorithms.
- Helper functions to create an icosahedron, a regular prism and a
pyramid have been added.
- Add class `CGAL::Face_filtered_graph` that wraps an existing graph
and hide all simplices that are not in the selected connected
components.
- Added the class `CGAL::Seam_mesh`. The `Seam_mesh` is a graph
adaptor which allows to create virtual borders when marking edges as
seam edges.
- Add the functions `read_off()` and `write_off()`.
Release 4.10
------------
Release date: May 2017
### Installation
- The minimum required version of CMake is now 3.1. All CMake versions
up to 3.7 are supported.
- The compilation of some demo may require a C++11 compiler. The CGAL
library itself still support C++03 compilers.
- The shell script `cgal_create_cmake_script` now enables C++14 by
default.
- A new mechanism to check which packages of CGAL are used have been
added. It is particularly interesting for commercial users to ensure
they have a valid commercial license for the packages they used.
This can also be used to make sure only LGPL header files are used.
- Because of a bug in the g++ compiler about the C++11 keyword
`thread_local`, the CGAL\_Core library now always requires
`Boost.Thread` if the g++ compiler is used.
### Generalized Maps (new package)
- This package implements Generalized Maps in d dimensions. A
generalized map is a data structure enabling to represent an
orientable or non orientable subdivided object by describing all the
cells of the subdivision (for example in 3D vertices, edges, faces,
volumes) and all the incidence and adjacency relationships between
these cells. This data structure is the generalization of the
combinatorial maps in order to be able to represent non orientable
objects.
### 3D Point Set (new package)
- This package provides a flexible data structure `CGAL::Point_set_3`
that allows the user to easily handle point sets with an arbitrary
number of attributes (such as normal vectors, colors, labeling,
etc.).
### Combinatorial Maps and Linear cell complex
- **Breaking change**: the requirements of the item class used to
customize a combinatorial map and a linear cell complex changed.
Instead of defining the type of darts used, you have to define the
information you want to add in each dart. You can define the
`CGAL_CMAP_DART_DEPRECATED` macro to keep the old behavior.
### Triangulated Surface Mesh Shortest Paths
- **Breaking change**: Rename all functions, types, and enums using
*barycentric coordinate* to *barycentric coordinates*.
### CGAL and the Boost Graph Library (BGL)
- **Breaking change**: Addition of a free function `reserve()` in the
concept `MutableFaceGraph`. Models provided by CGAL have been
updated.
### 2D and 3D Linear Geometry Kernel
- **Breaking change**: The function `compare_slopes()` was renamed
`compare_slope`.
- Added a 2D and 3D weighted point class and predicates and
constructions.
- Add functions `l_infinity_distance()` for 2D and 3D.
- Add a new functor in CGAL Kernel concept to compare the slope of two
3D segments. All models of the Kernel concept now provide the
functor `Compare_slope_3`, and the free function `compare_slope()`
is available.
- Add an operator in CGAL Kernel concept `Angle_3` to qualify the
angle between the normal of the triangle given by three points, and
a vector.
### 3D Convex Hull
- The convex hull function can also produce a `Surface_mesh`, and
generally speaking any model of the concept `MutableFaceGraph`
- The function `convex_hull_3_to_polyhedron_3()` is deprecated and
`convex_hull_3_to_face_graph.h` should be used instead.
- The class `Convex_hull_traits_3` now documents a nested type
`Polygon_mesh` instead of `Polyhedron_3`. The other nested type is
kept for backward compatibility.
- Remove the function `CGAL::convex_hull_incremental_3()` deprecated
since CGAL 4.6.
### 3D Boolean Operations on Nef Polyhedra
- Add a new constructor from a face graph model
### Linear cell complex
- Deprecate class `Linear_cell_complex` which is now renamed
`Linear_cell_complex_for_combinatorial_map_dart`.
### 2D Triangulation data structure
- Add function `insert_in_hole`.
### 2D Triangulations
- **Breaking change**: Removed the arbitrary dimensional weighted
point class. Users must use a version prior to 4.9 if they need this
class.
- **Breaking change**:The number type of weighted points in regular
triangulations is no longer a template parameter but the field type
of the geometric traits class. Users who need this feature must use
a version prior to 4.9
- The class `Regular_triangulation_filtered_traits_2` deprecated since
CGAL 3.6 has been removed.
- Deprecate the class `Regular_triangulation_euclidean_traits_2`, as
the weighted point and the function objects for weighted points are
part of the concept `Kernel`/
- The class `Regular_triangulation_2` can take a kernel as template
argument, that is one no longer has to use
`Regular_triangulation_euclidea_traits_2`, although this still
works.
### 3D Triangulations
- **Breaking change**: The number type of weighted points in regular
triangulations is no longer a template parameter but the field type
of the geometric traits class. Users who need this feature must use
a version prior to 4.9.
- The class `Regular_triangulation_filtered_traits_3` deprecated since
CGAL 3.6 has been removed.
- Deprecate the class `Regular_triangulation_euclidean_traits_3`, as
the weighted point and the function objects for weighted points are
part of the concept `Kernel`/
- The class `Regular_triangulation_3` can take a kernel as template
argument, that is one no longer has to use
`Regular_triangulation_euclidean_traits_3`, although this still
works.
- Add function `link_to_face_graph()` to copy the set of faces
incident to a vertex into a model of `FaceGraph`.
### 3D Mesh Generation
- The constructor
`CGAL::Polyhedral_mesh_domain_with_features_3(std::string)` is
deprecated.
### Polygon Mesh Processing
- Add fast and robust corefinement and Boolean operation functions for
triangulated surface meshes:
- `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::corefine_and_compute_union()`
- `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::corefine_and_compute_difference()`
- `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::corefine_and_compute_intersection()`
- `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::corefine()`
- `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::does_bound_a_volume()`
- `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::surface_intersection()`
- Add functions to compute approximated Hausdorff distances between
two meshes, a mesh and a point set, or a point set and a mesh:
`sample_triangle_mesh()`, `approximated_Hausdorff_distance()`,
`approximated_symmetric_Hausdorff_distance()`,
`max_distance_to_triangle_mesh()`, `max_distance_to_point_set()`.
- The function `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::bbox_3()` has been
renamed `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::bbox()`.
### Point Set Processing
- Function `CGAL::remove_outliers()` has an additional parameter based
on a distance threshold to make it easier and more intuitive to use.
- New functions for automatic scale estimations: either a global scale
or multiple local scales can be estimated for both 2D and 3D point
sets based on the assumption that they sample a curve in 2D or a
surface in 3D.
### CGAL and the Boost Graph Library (BGL)
- Add function `CGAL::convert_nef_polyhedron_to_polygon_mesh()` to
convert a `Nef_polyhedron_3` to any model of the `MutableFaceGraph`
concept.
- Add class `CGAL::Graph_with_descriptor_with_graph` that wraps an
existing graph and provides a reference to the said graph to all of
its descriptors.
### Cone Based Spanners
- Add a parameter to compute half Tao graph and half Theta graph.
- Add an ipelet for this package.
### Geometric Object Generators
- Add point random generators
- in a 3D triangle mesh model of the concept `FaceListGraph`
(`CGAL::Random_points_in_triangle_mesh_3`),
- on the boundary of a tetrahedral mesh
(`CGAL::Random_points_in_tetrahedral_mesh_boundary_3`),
- in a tetrahedral mesh
(`CGAL::Random_points_in_tetrahedral_mesh_3`),
- in a 2D triangle mesh
(`CGAL::Random_points_in_triangle_mesh_2`),
- in a range of 2D or 3D triangles
(`CGAL::Random_points_in_triangles_3` and
`CGAL::Random_points_in_triangles_2`).
- on a 3D segment (`CGAL::Random_points_on_segment_3`).
Release 4.9
-----------
Release date: Sept 2016
### Header-only mode
- CGAL can now be used in headers only mode, i.e. without compiling
the CGAL libraries and linking with these libraries when compiling
examples, tests and demos. Note that running CMake on CGAL is still
required in order to generate some configuration files.
### Cone Based Spanners (new package)
- This package provides algorithms for constructing two kinds of
cone-based spanners: Yao graph and Theta graph, given a set of
vertices on the plane and the directions of cone boundaries.
### 2D Minkowski Sums
- Introduce a convex decomposition strategy, namely
`Polygon_nop_decomposition_2`, that merely passed the input polygon
to the list of output polygons.
- Introduce overloads of the function `minkowski_sum_2()`, which
accepts 2 decomposition strategies.
- Introduce an overloaded function called
`minkowski_sum_by_decomposition_2(P, Q, decom_no_holes, decomp_with_holes)`,
which computes the 2D Minkowski sum using optimal choices of
decomposition strategies.
### Combinatorial Maps
- Deprecate global functions (`make_combinatorial_hexahedron()`,
`make_combinatorial_polygon()`, `make_combinatorial_tetrahedron()`,
`make_edge()`, `insert_cell_0_in_cell_1()`,
`insert_cell_0_in_cell_2()`, `insert_cell_1_in_cell_2()`,
`insert_cell_2_in_cell_3()`, `insert_dangling_cell_1_in_cell_2()`,
`is_insertable_cell_1_in_cell_2()`,
`is_insertable_cell_2_in_cell_3()`, `is_removable()`,
`remove_cell()`) which are now member functions in the
`CombinatorialMap` concept.
- It is not longer possible to use the old API switched on by defining
the macro `CGAL_CMAP_DEPRECATED`. This API was deprecated since CGAL
4.4.
### Point Set Processing
- New function `CGAL::read_ply_custom_points()` that allows the user
to read any additional point attribute from a PLY input point set.
- `CGAL::structure_point_set()`: new algorithm that takes advantage of
detected planes to produce a structured point set (with flat
regions, sharp edges and vertices).
### Point Set Shape Detection
- New post-processing algorithm: `CGAL::regularize_planes()`. This
allows the user to favor parallelism, orthogonality, coplanarity
and/or axial symmetry between detected planes.
### Polygon Mesh Processing
- Add the function
`CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::is_polygon_soup_a_polygon_mesh()` to
check whether a polygon soup is a polygon mesh.
- Add some new features to `CGAL::isotropic_remeshing()`:
- It is now possible to select fixed vertices that survive the
remeshing process, and to keep face attributes such as colors
valid after remeshing.
- The user can choose the number of relaxation steps happening at
each loop, and to run 1-dimensional relaxation along constrained
polylines.
- The functions `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::triangulate_face()`
and `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::triangulate_faces()` now
indicate whether some faces have not been triangulated.
### Surface Mesh Deformation
- Add a new tag `SRE_ARAP` to use the Smoothed Rotation Enhanced
As-Rigid-As-Possible deformation algorithm.
### 3D Fast Intersection and Distance Computation
- Add the functions `AABB_tree::first_intersection()` and
`AABB_tree::first_intersected_primitive()` that compute the
intersection which is closest to the source of a ray
### CGAL and the Boost Graph Library (BGL)
- Add a helper function `CGAL::copy_face_graph()` to copy a source
FaceListGraph into another FaceListGraph of different type.
- Add a class `CGAL::Dual` that creates the dual view of a `FaceGraph`
and a creation function `CGAL::dual(primal)`.
#### CGAL and Boost Property Maps
- It is not longer possible to use the old API of the property maps
provided by CGAL, switched on by defining the macro
`CGAL_USE_PROPERTY_MAPS_API_V1`. This API was deprecated since CGAL
4.3.
Release 4.8
-----------
Release date: April 2016
### General
- The support for Qt3 is dropped and all demos using it got removed.
### Installation
- Starting with Visual C++ 2015 we no longer require `Boost.Thread` as
we use the C++11 keyword `thread_local` and the C+11 class
`std::mutex` .
- The same holds for g++ 4.8 or later when the C++11 standard is used.
### Optimal Transportation Curve Reconstruction (new package)
- This package implements a method to reconstruct and simplify 2D
point sets. The input is a set of 2D points with mass attributes,
possibly hampered by noise and outliers. The output is a set of line
segments and isolated points which approximate the input points.
### 2D Regularized Boolean Set-Operations
- Improve the performance of operations in some settings.
**Breaking change**: This improvement requires changes of the face
and halfedge type of the underlying arrangement Dcel. See the
concepts `GeneralPolygonSetDcelHalfedge` and
`GeneralPolygonSetDcelFace` for more details. If you use a different
simplex types, inheriting your simplices from `CGAL::Gps_face_base`
and `CGAL::Gps_halfedge_base` is sufficient to accommodate for the
update.
### 3D Boolean Operations on Nef Polyhedra
- Add 3 new constructors: from a point range, from a point, and from a
segment.
### Combinatorial Maps
- **Breaking change**: Change the type of Boolean marks, old type is
int, new type is `size_type`. If no more mark is available,
`get_new_mark` throws an exception, instead of returning `-1`.
### 2D Arrangements
- Speed up the edge removal in case the incident faces contains many
holes.
- Set the format of polylines and polycurves. The format of a general
polyline or polycurve consists of the sequence of subcurves that
comprise the original curve. The format of a polyline of linear
segments consists of the sequence of points that define the original
curve. (The latter restores the format used before polycurves were
introduced in 4.7.) Fix the extraction from istream and insertion
into ostream operators of polylines and polycurves accordingly.
- Fix the traits class that handles Bezier curves. In particular, fix
the case where the curve is closed (i.e, the first and last control
points coincide).
### 3D Mesh Generation
- Add support of 3D gray level images as input for the tetrahedral
mesh generation.
- **Breaking change:** All models of the concept `MeshDomain_3` must
now provide a member function `bbox()`.
### Advancing Front Surface Reconstruction
- Optional template functor `Filter` is replaced by another optional
template functor `Priority`. This allows to change the way facets
are prioritized by the algorithm instead of having a simple option
to reject some facets.
**Breaking change**: Programs using the old `Filter` API will not
compile anymore as it must be replaced with the `Priority` API as
described in the manual. Codes using the default behavior are not
impacted.
### Polygon Mesh Processing
- Add a new triangle-based isotropic remeshing algorithm for
triangulated surface meshes,
`CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::isotropic_remeshing()` and a helper
function for isotropic remeshing :
`CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::split_long_edges()`
- Add the function `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::border_halfedges()`
to collect the border of a given face range
- Add the function
`CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::remove_isolated_vertices()` to be
used on any polygon mesh
- Add the function `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::triangulate_face()`
to triangulate a single face of a polygon mesh
- Add an overload for
`CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::triangulate_faces()` to triangulate
a range of faces of a polygon mesh
- Add function `keep_large_connected_components()`
- Add measuring functions for polygon meshes, to compute length, area,
and volume of simplices or group of simplices of a polygon mesh.
- Add function `bbox_3()` to compute the bounding box of a polygon
mesh.
### Point Set Processing
- **Breaking change:** new template parameter `Concurrency_tag` for
the functions `compute_average_spacing()`,
`edge_aware_upsample_point_set()`, `jet_estimate_normals()`,
`jet_smooth_point_set()`, and `pca_estimate_normals()`. To update
your code simply add as first template parameter
`CGAL::Sequential_tag` or `CGAL::Parallel_tag` when calling one of
these functions.
- `CGAL::Parallel_tag` can no longer be used in Point Set Processing
algorithms if TBB is not available.
- Add a new simplification algorithm based on hierarchical clustering:
`CGAL::hierarchy_simplify_point_set()`. It allows either to
uniformly simplify the point set or to automatically adapt the local
density of points to the local variation of the input computed by
principal component analysis.
- New IO functions for PLY format (Polygon File Format):
`CGAL::read_ply_points()`, `CGAL::read_ply_points_and_normals()`,
`CGAL::write_ply_points()` and
`CGAL::write_ply_points_and_normals()`.
### Surface Mesh Parameterization
- `LSCM_parameterizer_3` now uses by default Eigen instead of OpenNL
as a model of `SparseLinearAlgebraTraits_d`.
### Spatial Searching
- Add function to find any point in a range query, that is neither all
points, nor the closest one.
### Principal Component Analysis
- Add a template parameter `DiagonalizeTraits` for functions
`CGAL::linear_least_squares_fitting_2()` and
`CGAL::linear_least_squares_fitting_3()`. This allows to either
choose the legacy internal diagonalization code from CGAL or the
Eigen implementation (or any class that is a model of
`DiagonalizeTraits`). Variants of the function that automatically
deduce the kernel also automatically select the diagonalizer, so the
API is mostly preserved.
### CGAL and Solvers
- This package now includes all CGAL concepts for solvers with models
using the third party Eigen library.
### CGAL and the Boost Graph Library (BGL)
- Add function `CGAL::split_graph_into_polylines()` that allows to
extract from a soup of segments given as a graph, polylines with
nodes of degree at most 2. In addition a functor can be passed to
the function to specify additional polyline endpoints.
- New functions to manipulate selection of faces, edges and vertices
in a halfedge graph are added: `CGAL::expand_face_selection()`,
`CGAL::reduce_face_selection()`, `CGAL::expand_edge_selection()`,
`CGAL::reduce_edge_selection()` `CGAL::expand_vertex_selection()`,
`CGAL::reduce_vertex_selection()` and
`CGAL::select_incident_faces()`.
- Add a helper function `CGAL::clear` which clears a MutableFaceGraph
efficiently and generically.
Release 4.7
-----------
Release date: October 2015
### Installation
- The minimum required version of CMake is now 2.8.11. CMake versions
3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 are supported.
- All Qt4 demos have been updated and now require Qt5 to be compiled.
Qt5 version 5.3 or higher is required. The support for Qt4 is
dropped. To compile libCGAL\_Qt5 and demos, you must set the cmake
or environment variable `Qt5_DIR` to point to the path to the
directory containing the file `Qt5Config.cmake` created by your Qt5
installation. If you are using the open source edition it should be
`/path-to/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-<version>/qtbase/lib/cmake/Qt5`.
- The code of the 3D demos now uses modern OpenGL, with shaders,
instead of the fixed pipeline API of OpenGL-1.
- The Microsoft Windows Visual C++ compiler 2015 (VC14) is now
supported. However, since this compiler is not officially supported
by Intel TBB 4.4 and Qt 5.5 (the latest versions available at the
time of this release), the parallelism features of CGAL and Qt5
demos will not work.
### L Infinity Segment Delaunay Graphs (new package)
- The package provides the geometric traits for constructing the
segment Delaunay graph in the max-norm (L Infinity). The traits also
contain methods to draw the edges of the dual of the segment
Delaunay graph in the max-norm i.e., the segment Voronoi diagram in
the max-norm. The algorithm and traits rely on the segment Delaunay
graph algorithm and traits under the Euclidean distance. The segment
Voronoi diagram in the max-norm has applications in VLSI CAD.
### Advancing Front Surface Reconstruction (new package)
- This package provides a greedy algorithm for surface reconstruction
from an unorganized point set. Starting from a seed facet, a
piecewise linear surface is grown by adding Delaunay triangles one
by one. The most plausible triangles are added first, in a way that
avoids the appearance of topological singularities.
### Triangulated Surface Mesh Shortest Paths (new package)
- The package provides methods for computing shortest path on
triangulated surface meshes. Given a set of source points on the
surface, this package provides a data structure that can efficiently
provides the shortest path from any point on the surface to the
sources points. There is no restriction on the genus or the number
of connected components of the mesh.
### Triangulated Surface Mesh Skeletonization (new package)
- This package provides a (1D) curve skeleton extraction algorithm for
a triangulated polygonal mesh without borders based on the mean
curvature flow. The particularity of this skeleton is that it
captures the topology of the input. For each skeleton vertex one can
obtain its location and its corresponding vertices from the input
mesh. The code is generic and works with any model of the
\`FaceListGraph\` concept.
### 3D Point-Set Shape Detection (new package)
- This package implements the efficient RANSAC method for shape
detection, contributed by Schnabel et al. From an unstructured point
set with unoriented normals, the algorithm detects a set of shapes.
Five types of primitive shapes are provided by this package: plane,
sphere, cylinder, cone and torus. Detecting other types of shapes is
possible by implementing a class derived from a base shape.
### 2D Visibility (new package)
- This package provides several variants to compute the visibility
area of a point within polygonal regions in two dimensions.
### Polygon Mesh Processing (new package)
- This package implements a collection of methods and classes for
polygon mesh processing, ranging from basic operations on simplices,
to complex geometry processing algorithms. The implementation of
this package mainly follows algorithms and references given in
Botsch et al.'s book on polygon mesh processing.
### General
- Support for unordered sets and maps of the stdlib and of boost for
handle and index classes.
### Approximation of Ridges and Umbilics on Triangulated Surface Meshes
- This package now supports any model of the concept `FaceGraph`.
- **Breaking change:** The package no longer supports models of
`TriangulatedSurfaceMesh` which are not at the same time models of
the concept `FaceGraph`.
### dD Geometry Kernel
- Epick\_d gains 3 new functors: `Construct_circumcenter_d`,
`Compute_squared_radius_d`, `Side_of_bounded_sphere_d`. Those are
essential for the computation of alpha-shapes.
### 2D Arrangements
- Introduced a new traits class, called
`Arr_polycurve_traits_2<SubcurveTraits>`, which handles general
piece-wise (polycurve) curves. The pieces do not necessarily have to
be linear.
- Introduced two new concepts called `ArrangementApproximateTraits_2`
and `ArrangementConstructXMonotoneCurveTraits_2`.
- The existing `ArrangementLandmarkTraits_2` concept, which has
two requirements, now refines the two respective concepts above.
- The template parameter of the existing
`Arr_polyline_traits_2<SegmentTraits>` template must be
substituted with a traits class that is a model of the
`ArrangementConstructXMonotoneTraits_2` concept among the other
when `Arr_polyline_traits_2` is instantiated.
### 2D Minkowski Sums
- Added support for polygons with holes and optimized the construction
of Minkowski sums.
- Introduced an implementation of the "reduced convolution"
method, a variant of the method described in "2D Minkowski Sum
of Polygons Using Reduced Convolution" by Behar and Lien. The
new method supports polygons with holes and in many cases out
pergorms the implementation of the exsisting (full) convolution
method.
- Introduced two new classes that decompose polygons into convex
pieces (models of the `PolygonConvexDecomposition_2` concept)
based on vertical decomposition and constrained Delaunay
triangulation, respectively. These new models also support the
convex decomposition of polygons with holes.
### 3D Periodic Triangulations
- Rename `Periodic_3_triangulation_traits_3` to
`Periodic_3_Delaunay_triangulation_traits_3`.
- Rename the concept `Periodic_3TriangulationTraits_3` to
`Periodic_3DelaunayTriangulationTraits_3`.
- Create `Periodic_3_triangulation_traits_3` and the concept
`Periodic_3TriangulationTraits_3`.
### 2D Conforming Triangulations and Meshes
- Add an optimization method `CGAL::lloyd_optimize_mesh_2()` that
implements the Lloyd (or Centroidal Voronoi Tesselation)
optimization algorithm in a Constrained Delaunay Triangulation. For
optimization, the triangulation data structure on which the mesher
relies needs its `VertexBase` template parameter to be a model of
the new concept `DelaunayMeshVertexBase_2`.
### Point Set Processing and Surface Reconstruction from Point Sets
- Add the function `CGAL::compute_vcm()` for computing the Voronoi
Covariance Measure (VCM) of a point set. The output of this function
can be used with the function `CGAL::vcm_is_on_feature_edge()` to
determine whether a point is on or close to a feature edge. The
former function is also internally used by
`CGAL::vcm_estimate_normals()` to estimate the normals of a point
set and it is particularly suited to point sets with noise.
### Spatial Sorting
- Add the possibility to sort points on a sphere along a space-filling
curve using the functions `CGAL::hilbert_sort_on_sphere` and
`CGAL::spatial_sort_on_sphere`.
### Geometric Object Generators
- Add new random generator of points in a 2D and 3D triangle and in a
tetrahedron (`CGAL::Random_points_in_triangle_2`,
`CGAL::Random_points_in_triangle_3`,
`CGAL::Random_points_in_tetrahedron_3`).
Release 4.6.2
-------------
Release date: August 2015
This release only fixes bugs. See the list of fixed bugs on Github:
<https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/issues?q=milestone%3A4.6.2>
Release 4.6.1
-------------
Release date: June 2015
This release only fixes bugs. See the list of fixed bugs on Github:
<https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/issues?q=milestone%3A4.6.1+-label%3Ainvalid>
Release 4.6
-----------
Release date: April 2015
### Installation
- The required version of Boost is now 1.48 or higher.
### 2D Polyline Simplification (new package)
- This package enables to simplify polylines with the guarantee that
the topology of the polylines does not change. This can be done for
a single polyline as well as for a set of polyline constraints in a
constrained triangulation. The simplification can be controlled with
cost and stop functions.
### 2D Generalized Barycentric Coordinates (new package)
- This package offers an efficient and robust implementation of
two-dimensional closed-form generalized barycentric coordinates
defined for simple two-dimensional polygons.
### Scale-Space Surface Reconstruction (new package)
- This new package provides a class gathering a dedicated smoothing
algorithm and some convenience functions to help the creation of a
surface out of a point set using the 3D Alpha Shapes package. The
particularity of this reconstruction pipeline is that the input
point are in the output and no new points are created. Note that in
the current version, the output is a triangle soup that is not
necessarily a valid (manifold) polyhedral surface.
### Surface Mesh (new package)
- The surface mesh class provided by this package is an implementation
of the halfedge data structure allowing to represent polyhedral
surfaces. It is an alternative to the packages `CGAL::Polyhedron_3`
and `CGAL::HalfedgeDS`.
### dD Triangulation (new package)
- This new package provides classes for manipulating triangulations in
Euclidean spaces whose dimension can be specified at compile-time or
at run-time. It also provides a class that represents Delaunay
triangulations.
### dD Convex Hulls and Delaunay Triangulations
- This package is deprecated and the new package Triangulation should
be used instead.
### dD Geometry Kernel
- It has been reported that the recently introduced `Epick_d` kernel
may not work with Intel C++ Compiler prior to version 15.
Documentation has been updated.
### 3D Convex Hulls
- Add functions `halfspace_intersection_3` and
`halfspace_intersection_with_constructions_3` to compute the
intersection of halfspaces defining a closed polyhedron.
- Fix a bug introduced in CGAL 4.5 that can appear while computing the
convex hull of coplanar points.
- Fix a robustness issue in `Convex_hull_traits_3`. This traits is
used by default with the kernel
`Exact_predicates_inexact_constructions_kernel`.
- The function `CGAL::convex_hull_incremental_3` is deprecated and the
function `convex_hull_3` should be used instead.
### Combinatorial Maps and Linear Cell Complex
- Added `correct_invalid_attributes`,
`set_automatic_attributes_management` and
`are_attributes_automatically_managed` methods in `CombinatorialMap`
concept. This allows high level operations to not update non void
attributes during massive calls of these operations, but only after
the end of their executions.
### 2D Triangulations
- The class `Constrained_triangulation_plus_2` now can handle
polylines as constraints.
- As a consequence a `Constraint_id` has been introduced which
replaces `pair<Vertex_handle,Vertex_handle>` as identifier of a
constraint.
### 3D Mesh Generation
- Add member functions `output_boundary_to_off` and
`output_facets_in_complex_to_off` in the class
`CGAL::Mesh_complex_3_in_triangulation_3` to export the boundary of
a domain or a subdomain.
### 3D Fast Intersection and Distance Computation
- Add new constructors to `AABB_halfedge_graph_segment_primitive` and
`AABB_face_graph_triangle_primitive` in order to be able to build
primitives one by one.
### Spatial Searching
- Fixed a bug in `CGAL::Splitters.h` sliding midpoint rule, where
degenerated point sets (e.g.,points on segment) caused the kd-tree
to get linear.
- Improved performance of `Orthogonal_k_neighbor_search`. Note that VC
2013 does not compile `boost::container::deque` of Boost 1\_55 and
does hence have a workaround which does not have the improvement.
- **Breaking change:** The concept `OrthogonalDistance` has new
function overloads for `min_distance_to_rectangle` and
`max_distance_to_rectangle` with an additional reference parameter
`std::vector`.
- **Breaking change:** The order of the points in the iterator range
`[tree.begin(),tree.end()]` is not the order of insertion of the
points into the tree. This was not guaranteed before but might have
been observed and exploited by users.
- Derived `kd_tree_leaf_node` and `kd_tree_internal_node` from
`kd_tree_node` to save memory.
### Geometric Object Generators
- Add a new function `random_convex_hull_in_disc_2` that efficiently
generates a random polygon as the convex hull of uniform random
points chosen in a disc.
Release 4.5.2
-------------
Release date: February 2015
### General
- Fix a bug that prevented the compilation with recent versions of
Boost (>=1.56) when explicit conversions operators (from C++11)
are supported. That prevented the compilation with Microsoft Visual
Studio 2013.
### 3D Convex Hulls
- Fix a non-robust predicate bug that was showing up when input points
where lexicographically sorted.
### 3D Mesh Generation
- Fix a bug in the sliver perturbation optimization method. It could
create some holes on the surface of the mesh.
Release 4.5.1
-------------
Release date: December 2014
### 3D Mesh Generation
- Fix a bug in the sliver exudation preservation of boundaries.
Release 4.5
-----------
Release date: October 2014
### Installation
- Changes in the set of supported platforms:
- The Microsoft Windows Visual C++ compiler 2008 (VC9) is no
longer supported since CGAL-4.5.
- Since CGAL version 4.0, Eigen was the recommended third-party
library to use with *Planar Parameterization of Triangulated Surface
Meshes*, *Surface Reconstruction from Point Sets*, *Approximation of
Ridges and Umbilics on Triangulated Surface Meshes*, and *Estimation
of Local Differential Properties of Point-Sampled Surfaces*
packages. From CGAL version 4.5, Taucs, Blas and Lapack are no
longer supported.
- CGAL is now compatible with the new CMake version 3.0.
### Triangulated Surface Mesh Deformation (new package)
- This package allows to deform a triangulated surface mesh under
positional constraints of some of its vertices without requiring any
additional structure other than the surface mesh itself. The methods
provided implements an as-rigid-as-possible deformation. Note that
the main class name has changed between the 4.5-beta1 and the 4.5
releases to better match the CGAL naming conventions (from
`CGAL::Deform_mesh` to `CGAL::Surface_mesh_deformation`).
### CGAL and the Boost Graph Library (major changes)
- Cleanup of the `HalfedgeGraph` concept. In particular:
- Introduction of the notion of `halfedge_descriptor` in the
specialization of the class `boost::graph_traits`.
- Deprecation of `halfedge_graph_traits`.
- A model of `HalfedgeGraph` is considered as an undirected graph.
Thus any call to `edges()` should be replaced by `halfedges()`
and `num_edges()` now returns the number of (undirected) edges.
- **Breaking change:** `is_border_edge` and `is_border_halfedge`
properties are removed. The free functions `is_border()` and
`is_border_edge()` should be used instead.
- Renaming of `HalfedgeGraph` specific free functions.
- Introduction of the `FaceGraph` concept.
- Adaptation of the package *Triangulated Surface Mesh Simplification*
and of the class `AABB_halfedge_graph_segment_primitive` from the
package *3D Fast Intersection and Distance Computation* to the API
change.
- Update of the package *Triangulated Surface Mesh Segmentation* and
of the class `AABB_face_graph_triangle_primitive` from the package
*3D Fast Intersection and Distance Computation* to accept model of
the newly introduced concepts.
- Offer *Euler* operations as free functions for models of the graph
concepts provided by CGAL.
- Specialization of `boost::graph_traits` for
`OpenMesh::PolyMesh_ArrayKernelT` as proof of concept. A
`OpenMesh::PolyMesh_ArrayKernelT` becomes a model of the
aforementioned concepts when including
`CGAL/boost/graph/graph_traits_PolyMesh_ArrayKernelT.h`.
### dD Geometry Kernel
- A new model `Epick_d` of the `Kernel_d` concept is introduced. It
provides better performance through arithmetic filtering and
specializations for fixed dimensions. It may not work with compilers
as old as gcc-4.2, but was tested with gcc-4.4.
### 3D Convex Hulls
- Clean up the documentation of the concepts
### 2D Arrangements
- Fixed a bug in removing an unbounded curve (e.g., a ray) from an
arrangement induced by unbounded curves.
### 2D Snap Rounding
- Replaced use of private `kd_tree` with CGAL's official `Kd_tree`
from `Spatial_searching` package; results in a small performance
gain. Removed the private `kd_tree` package.
### 3D Triangulations
- Add an experimental parallel version of the Delaunay triangulation
and the regular triangulation algorithms, which allows parallel
insertion and removal of point ranges.
- Add caching of circumcenters to `Regular_triangulation_cell_base_3`.
The cache value is computed when `cell->circumcenter()` or
`rt.dual(cell)` functions are called.
### 3D Periodic Triangulations
- Add a method to locate point with inexact predicates.
### 3D Mesh Generation
- Add a new constructor for the class `Labeled_mesh_domain_3` which
takes an `Iso_cuboid_3`.
- Add a new labeling function wrapper for meshing multi-domain.
- The meshing functionality in the Qt demos in `demo/Polyhedron/` and
`demo/Mesh_3/` can now use the handling of 1d-features, that exists
in CGAL since version 3.8.
- Add an experimental parallel version of the 3D mesh refinement and
mesh optimization methods.
### Point Set Processing and Surface Reconstruction from Point Sets
- The former demo has been removed and is fully merge in the
Polyhedron demo.
### Point Set Processing
- Workaround a bug in dijsktra shortest path of boost 1.54 by shipping
and using the boost header from the 1.55 release. This header will
be used only if you are using the version 1.54 of boost.
### Triangulated Surface Mesh Simplification
- **Breaking change:** Due to the cleanup of the concepts of the
package *CGAL and the Boost Graph Library*, the named parameter
`edge_is_border_map` has been removed, and the named parameter
`edge_is_constrained_map` now expects a property map with an edge
descriptor as key type (vs. halfedge descriptor before).
- Add some optimization in the code making the implementation faster
(depending on the cost and the placement chosen). However, for an
edge which collapse is not topologically valid, the vector of
vertices of the link provided by its profile might contains
duplicates, thus also breaking the orientation guarantee in the
vector. This must not be a problem for users as the edge is not
collapsible anyway but if it is a absolute requirement for user
defined cost/placement, defining the macro
`CGAL_SMS_EDGE_PROFILE_ALWAYS_NEED_UNIQUE_VERTEX_IN_LINK` will
restore the former behavior.
### dD Spatial Searching
- Added methods `reserve(size_t size)` and `size_t capacity()`
to class `Kd_tree` to allocate memory to store `size` points and to
report that number (STL compliance).
### STL Extensions for CGAL
- Add `Compact_container::operator[]`, allowing a direct access to the
ith element of a compact container.
- Add `Concurrent_compact_container`, a compact container which allows
concurrent insertion and removal.
Release 4.4
-----------
Release date: April 2014
### Installation
- Additional supported platforms:
- The Apple Clang compiler version 5.0 is now supported on
OSÂ XÂ Mavericks.
- The Microsoft Windows Visual C++ compiler 2013 (VC12) is now
supported.
### Triangulated Surface Mesh Segmentation (new package)
- This package implements the segmentation of triangulated surface
meshes based on the Shape Diameter Function (SDF). In addition, it
also provides functions to generate segmentations based on a user
defined alternative to the SDF.
### Number Types
- A new class `CGAL::Mpzf` is introduced on some platforms for exact
ring operations. It is used to improve the speed of the evaluation
of predicates in degenerate situations.
### 2D and 3D Geometry Kernel
- Fix a bug introduced in CGAL 4.3 when computing the intersection of
two 3D triangles.
### 2D Polygon Partitioning
- Bug fix to make the partition algorithms working with a Lazy kernel
such as `Exact_predicates_exact_constructions_kernel`.
### 2D Regularized Boolean Set-Operations
- Fix two memory leaks in `CGAL::General_polygon_set_2`.
### Combinatorial Maps and Linear Cell Complex
- `null_dart_handle` is no longer a static data member in the
`CombinatorialMap` concept. This implies to move the following
methods of `Dart` concept into `CombinatorialMap` concept:
`is_free`, `highest_nonfree_dimension`, `opposite` and
`other_extremity`. We also transform the static methods
`vertex_attribute` and `point` of `Linear_cell_complex` class into
non static methods. You can define the CGAL\_CMAP\_DEPRECATED macro
to keep the old behavior.
### 2D Arrangements
- Revise the API of **polylines**. In particular, *construction* is
now done using functors and *iteration* is possible only on the
segments of a polyline.
- Fix a bug in the *Landmark* point-location strategy.
### 2D Snap Rounding
- Fix a memory leak
### 2D Triangulations
- Add different overloads of the function `insert_constraints` that
inserts a range of points and segments, or a range of segments.
These functions uses the spatial sorting in order to speed up the
time needed for the insertion.
### 3D Alpha Shapes
- Add member functions in `CGAL::Alpha_shape_3` to give access to the
alpha status of edges and facets (`get_alpha_status())`.
- Add another filtration method (`filtration_with_alpha_values()`)
that reports the alpha value at which each face appears in the
filtration.
### 3D Mesh Generation
- Fix the access to functions `number_of_facets` and `number_of_cells`
in `Mesh_complex_3_in_triangulation_3`.
- Change the internal API of the sliver perturber, to make possible
for developers to optimize another criterion than the (default)
minimal dihedral angle. Developers can also define a new
perturbation vector (for angles we had gradient of squared
circumradius, gradient of volume, gradient of minimal dihedral
angle, and random) which is better suitable to optimize their
criterion.
- Improve the use of cache values in `Mesh_cell_base_3` to (re)compute
circumcenters and sliver criterion values only when needed.
### Triangulated Surface Mesh Simplification
- Fix a bug in the way edges can be marked as non-removable by adding
a named-parameter `edge_is_constrained_map` to the function
`edge_collapse`
### dD Spatial Searching
- Fix a documentation bug: The property map passed as template
parameter to the classes `Search_traits_adapter` and
`Distance_adapter` must be a lvalue property map. To avoid incorrect
usage, a static assertion has been added in the CGAL code to prevent
the user from instantiating these classes with an incorrect property
map type.
### CGAL ipelets
- Better description of the demo ipelets in the user manual
- New ipelet for pencils of circles
- New ipelet for hyperbolic geometry in Poincaré model
- The generator ipelet now generates point in a selected zone
- Hilbert sort ipelet implements two policies
Release 4.3
-----------
Release date: October 2013
### The CGAL Manual
- The documentation of CGAL is now generated with Doxygen.
### 2D Periodic Triangulations (new package)
- This package allows to build and handle triangulations of point sets
in the two dimensional flat torus. Triangulations are built
incrementally and can be modified by insertion or removal of
vertices. They offer point location facilities. The package provides
Delaunay triangulations and offers nearest neighbor queries and
primitives to build the dual Voronoi diagrams.
### API Changes
#### 2D and 3D Geometry Kernel
- The intersection functions and functors used to return a
`CGAL::Object` in order to deal with the different possible return
types. However, depending on the arguments it is possible to reduce
the possible return types to a small set. For this reason and to
take advantage of the type safety, we decided to use
`boost::variant` instead of `CGAL::Object`. The `result_of` protocol
is now even more useful to determine the return type of the
intersection functions and functors. The change should be relatively
transparent to the user thanks to the implicit constructor added to
`CGAL::Object`. However, it is recommended to upgrade your code. The
previous behavior can be restored by defining the macro
`CGAL_INTERSECTION_VERSION` to 1.
#### 2D Arrangements
- The type of the result of point location queries changed to
`boost::variant` (from `CGAL::Object`). For convenience, the
previous behavior can be restored by defining the macro
`CGAL_ARR_POINT_LOCATION_VERSION` to 1.
- Introduced an optimization for operations on large and dense
arrangements.
#### 3D Fast Intersection and Distance Computation
- Following the intersection API change, `Object_and_primitive_id` has
been replaced by a template class
`Intersection_and_primitive_id<Query>` to determine the type
depending on the query object type.
#### CGAL and Boost Property Maps
- The `key_type` of the property maps provided by CGAL used to be an
iterator. In order to be more easily re-used, the `key_type` has
been changed to be the `value_type` of the iterator. The packages
that have been updated to match these changes are **Point Set
Processing** and **Surface Reconstruction from Point Sets**.
However, for most users this change should be transparent if the
default property maps were used. For convenience, the former
behavior can be enabled by defining the macro
`CGAL_USE_PROPERTY_MAPS_API_V1`.
### Algebraic Foundations
- For convenience, add an overload of `make_rational()` taking a pair
of numbers.
### 2D and 3D Geometry Kernel
- A `Iso_rectangle_2` can now be constructed from a `Bbox_2` and an
`Iso_cuboid_3` from a `Bbox_3`.
- The implementation of `CGAL::Object` has been updated and now uses
`boost::shared_ptr` and `boost::any`. This implementation is faster.
- Add to `Bbox_2` and `Bbox_3` a `+=` operator as well as free
functions to get the bounding box of a range of geometric objects.
### Combinatorial Maps
- Two bug fixes: do not use the 2 least significant bits for cell
attribute without dart support; share the mark when copying a
CMap\_cell\_iterator.
- Add a constructor taking a given combinatorial map as argument,
possibly with different dimension and/or different attributes. This
allows to transform a combinatorial map.
- Add operator= and swap method.
- Add dynamic onmerge/onsplit functions that can be associated
dynamically to i-attributes and which are automatically called when
i-cells are split/merged.
- Add a function allowing to reverse the orientation of a
combinatorial map, and another one to reverse one connected
component of a combinatorial map.
### 3D Boolean Operations on Nef Polyhedra
- Bug-fix in IO when using `Lazy_exact_nt` as number type or
`Exact_predicates_exact_constructions_kernel` as kernel.
### 2D Triangulations
- Extend the concept `TriangulationDataStructure_2` to require a more
general `copy_tds` function that allows a copy between TDS of
different types. The CGAL model has been updated.
- Add a way to efficiently insert a range of points with information
into the 2D constrained Delaunay triangulations.
### 3D Triangulations
- Extend the concept `TriangulationDataStructure_3` to require a more
general `copy_tds` function that allows a copy between TDS of
different types. The CGAL model has been updated.
- Add an advanced function to set the infinite vertex of the
triangulation for low level operations
- Fix a bug in the function inserting a range of points with info when
the `Fast_location` tag is used
### 2D Segment Delaunay Graph
- Add functions `insert_points` and `insert_segments` to insert a
range of points and segments. These functions uses the spatial
sorting in order to speed up the time needed for the insertion. The
function
`insert(Input_iterator first, Input_iterator beyond, Tag_true)`
has been updated to dispatch the input when possible to these
functions.
### 2D Apollonius Graphs
- Modified insertion algorithm so that the code can handle
pseudo-circles as well.
- Updated implementation of the vertex conflict predicate by a faster
version.
### 3D Mesh Generation
- Speed-up `Mesh_3` and in particular the global optimizers (Lloyd and
ODT) by introducing a parameter `do_freeze` to prevent from moving
vertices which would move of very small displacements.
- Introduce new data structures and options for speed-up and
compacity. Note that `Compact_mesh_cell_base_3` and
`Mesh_vertex_base_3` are now our favoured implementations of the
concepts MeshCellBase\_3 and MeshVertexBase\_3.
- Introduce a new constructor for `Polyhedral_mesh_domain_3` that
takes a bounding polyhedron to be meshed along with a polyhedral
surface entirely included in it. This allows the user to mesh a
polyhedral domain with internal surface(s) which can be
non-watertight and even non-manifold.
- Several documentation bug fixes.
- Provide the ability to plug in custom cell\_base/vertex\_base
classes into the Mesh\_triangulation\_3 class.
### Triangulated Surface Mesh Simplification
- Fix a segmentation fault that was happening when some edges of
length 0 were in the input mesh.
### 3D Fast Intersection and Distance Computation
- Following the intersection API change, `Object_and_primitive_id` has
been replaced by a template class
`Intersection_and_primitive_id<Query>` to determine the type
depending on the query object type.
- Introduce the class `AABB_halfedge_graph_segment_primitive`, which
replaces the class `AABB_polyhedron_segment_primitive` (which is now
deprecated). The new class is more general and can be used with any
model of `HalfedgeGraph`.
- Introduce the class `AABB_face_graph_triangle_primitive` which
replaces the class `AABB_polyhedron_triangle_primitive` (which is
now deprecated).
- Document the classes `AABB_segment_primitive` and
`AABB_triangle_primitive` that were already used in some examples.
- Add a generic primitive class `AABB_primitive` that allows to define
a primitive type by defining only two property maps.
- Introduce a new concept of primitive `AABBPrimitiveWithSharedData`.
It allows to have some data shared between the primitives stored in
a `AABB_tree`. With this you can, for example have a primitive
wrapping an integer which refers to the position of a geometric
object in a `std::vector`. Only one reference to this vector will be
stored in the traits of the tree. The concept `AABBTraits`, its
model `AABB_traits` and the class `AABB_tree` have been updated
accordingly. However, everything is backward compatible.
- Fix a memory leak in the destructor of the class `AABB-tree`
### STL Extensions for CGAL
- Add to `Dispatch_output_iterator` and
`Dispatch_or_drop_output_iterator` an operator to accept and
dispatch a tuple of values.
### Concurrency in CGAL
- Add a `FindTBB` CMake module so that one can easily link with TBB to
write shared-memory parallel code.
- Introduce two new tags: Sequential\_tag and Parallel\_tag
Release 4.2
-----------
Release date: March 2013
### Installation
- Additional supported platforms:
- The Microsoft Windows Visual C++ compiler 2012 (VC11) is now
supported.
- With Microsoft Visual C++ (all supported versions), the compiler
flags `/bigobj` and `/wd4503` are added by CGAL CMake scripts.
- This is the last release whose "`UseCGAL.cmake`" file (if using CGAL
in a CMake build environment) contains the line
link_libraries(${CGAL_LIBRARIES_DIR} ${CGAL_3RD_PARTY_LIBRARIES_DIRS})
as this is a deprecated CMake command. The correct way to link with
CGAL's libraries (as for required 3rd party libraries) is to use
'`target_link_libraries`' which specifies for each build target
which libraries should be linked. The following serves as example:
find_package(CGAL)
include(${CGAL_USE_FILE})
add_executable(myexe main.cpp)
target_link_libraries(myexe ${CGAL_LIBRARIES}
${CGAL_3RD_PARTY_LIBRARIES})
We also expect further changes in CGAL's CMake setup (change of
variable names, consistency of filename and output, removing
essential libraries, building executables, removal of
'`${CGAL_3RD_PARTY_LIBRARIES}`').
### 2D Arrangements
- Enhanced the 2D-arrangements demonstration program and ported it to
Qt4. The new demonstration program makes use of the CGAL Graphics
View framework, in which the 2D primitives are individually
represented as objects in a scene. (The implementations of several
demos in CGAL already make use of this framework.) This project was
carried out as part of the 2012 Google Summer of Code program.
- Fixed a bug in the Walk-Along-A-Line point location strategy for
arrangements induced by unbounded curves.
### 2D Circular Geometry Kernel
- Fix the intersection type computed when intersecting two identical
circles.
- Forward correctly the result type of the linear kernel functors
### 2D Triangulations
- Add mechanism to avoid call stack overflow in
`Delaunay_triangulation_2` and
`Constrained_Delaunay_triangulation_2`.
- Add a constructor for `Regular_triangulation_2` and
`Delaunay_triangulation_2` from a range of points or a range of
points with info.
### 2D Voronoi Diagram Adaptor
- Bug-fix: Add ccb() method in face type as documented.
### 3D Minkowski Sum of Polyhedra
- Fix a memory leak.
### 3D Fast Intersection and Distance Computation
- Update requirements of the concepts `AABBTraits` and
`AABBGeomTraits` to match the implementation of the package.
### Generator
- Addition of the `Combination_enumerator`
### STL Extensions
- Introduction of `CGAL::cpp11::result_of` as an alias to the tr1
implementation from boost of the `result_of` mechanism. When all
compilers supported by CGAL will have a Standard compliant
implemention of the C++11 `decltype` feature, it will become an
alias to `std::result_of`.
### Surface Reconstruction from Point Sets
- Performance improvements and addition of an option to better
reconstruct undersampled zones. The poisson reconstruction plugin of
the Polyhedron demo has an option to switch it on.
Release 4.1
-----------
Release date: October 2012
### Installation
- Additional supported platforms:
- The Apple Clang compiler versions 3.1 and 3.2 are now supported
on Mac OS X.
- Improved configuration for essential and optional external third
party software
- Added more general script to create CMakeLists.txt files:
`cgal_create_CMakeLists`
- Availability tests for C++11 features are now performed with the
help of [Boost.Config](http://www.boost.org/libs/config). A Boost
version of 1.40.0 or higher is needed to use C++11 features.
### 2D Arrangement
- Improved the implementation of the incremental randomized
trapezoidal decomposition point-location strategy. The new
implementation enables point location in unbounded arrangements. It
constructs a search structure of guaranteed linear size with
guaranteed logarithmic query time.
### 2D Convex Hulls and Extreme Points
- Speed up the preprocessing stage of the Akl-Toussaint implementation
(used by the free function `convex_hull_2` when forward iterators
are provided as input).
### Combinatorial Maps
- Minor bugfix; replace some functors by methods.
### Linear Cell Complex
- Improve the demo: add a widget showing all the volumes and an
operation to create a Menger sponge.
### Kernels
- All Kernel functors now support the result\_of protocol.
### STL\_Extensions for CGAL
- The namespace `cpp0x` has been renamed `cpp11`. The old name is
still available for backward compatibility.
Release 4.0.2
-------------
Release date: Jul 2012
This is a bug fix release. It fixes a bug in the `CMakeLists.txt` for
CGAL-4.0.1, that prevented even building the libraries.
Release 4.0.1
-------------
Release date: Jul 2012
This is a bug fix release. Apart various minor fixes in the
documentation, the following has been changed since CGAL-4.0:
### 2D Voronoi Diagram Adaptor (re-added)
- The package *2D Voronoi Diagram Adaptor* was temporarily removed
from the CGAL distribution because of license issues. That package
is now back into CGAL.
### 2D and 3D Geometry Kernel
- Fix a bug in the `Segment_3-Triangle_3` intersection function in the
case the segment is collinear with a triangle edge.
- Fix a bug in the `Projection_traits_.._3` class in the case a
segment was parallel to the x-axis.
### Algebraic Kernel
- Avoid the linking error "duplicate symbols" when two compilation
units using the algebraic kernel are linked.
### 3D Boolean Operations on Nef Polygons Embedded on the Sphere
- Fix a memory leak due to the usage of an internal mechanism that has
been replaced by `boost::any`. This also influences the packages 2D
Boolean Operations on Nef Polygons, 3D Boolean Operations on Nef
Polyhedra, Convex Decomposition of Polyhedra, and 3D Minkowski Sum
of Polyhedra.
### 2D Arrangement
- Fix several memory leaks.
### 2D Mesh Generation
- Fix a compilation error in the header
`<CGAL/Mesh_2/Do_not_refine_edges.h>` when g++ version 4.7 is used.
### Surface Mesh Generation and 3D Mesh Generation
- Fix an important bug in the `CGAL_ImageIO` library, that could lead
to wrong result when meshing from a 3D image.
- Fix the compilation of the demo in `demo/Surface_mesher`, when Boost
version 1.48 or 1.49 is used.
### Surface Mesh Parameterization
- Fix a memory leak.
- Fix a compatibility issue with Eigen-3.1 of `Eigen_solver_traits`.
This fix also affects the usage of that class in the package
*Surface Reconstruction from Point Sets*.
Release 4.0
-----------
Release date: March 2012
CGAL 4.0 offers the following improvements and new functionality :
### License Changes
The whole CGAL-3.x series was released under a combination of LGPLv2
(for the foundations of CGAL), and QPL (for the high-level packages).
QPL was the former license of the graphical toolkit Qt, but that license
is not supported by any major free software project. Furthermore, the
terms of the LGPLv2 license are ambiguous for a library of C++
templates, like CGAL.
The CGAL project, driven by the CGAL Editorial Board, has decided to
change the license scheme of CGAL. We increased the major number of the
CGAL version to '4' in order to reflect this license change. The
CGAL-4.x series is released under:
- LGPLv3+ (that is LGPL *"either version 3 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version"*), for the foundations of CGAL, instead
of LGPLv2,
- GPLv3+ for the high-level packages, instead of QPL.
### General
- On Windows, CGAL libraries are now built by default as shared
libraries (also called DLL). To run applications that use .dll files
of CGAL, you must either copy the .dll files into the directory of
the application, or add the path of the directory that contains
those .dll files into the PATH environment variable.
- On Windows, the CMake scripts of CGAL now search for shared version
of the Boost libraries. You must ensure that the .dll files of Boost
are found by the dynamic linker. You can, for example, add the path
to the Boost .dll files to the PATH environment variable.
- On Windows, CMake version 2.8.6 or higher is now required.
- Eigen version 3.1 or later is now the recommended third party
library to use in *Planar Parameterization of Triangulated Surface
Meshes*, *Surface Reconstruction from Point Sets*, *Approximation of
Ridges and Umbilics on Triangulated Surface Meshes*, and *Estimation
of Local Differential Properties of Point-Sampled Surfaces*
packages. If you use Eigen you no longer need Taucs, Lapack or Blas
to use those packages (and any other in CGAL).
### Linear Cell Complex (new package)
- This package implements linear cell complexes, objects in
d-dimension with linear geometry. The combinatorial part of objects
is described by a combinatorial map, representing all the cells of
the object plus the incidence and adjacency relations between cells.
Geometry is added to combinatorial maps simply by associating a
point to each vertex of the map. This data structure can be seen as
the generalization in dD of the `Polyhedron_3`.
### 2D Voronoi Diagram Adaptor (temporarily removed)
- As the copyright holder of this package has not granted the right to
switch from QPL to GPL, this package is removed from the
distribution. Note that it is "only" an adapter, that is the
functionality of point/segment/disk Voronoi diagram is offered
through the Delaunay triangulation, segment Delaunay graph, and
Apollonius graph.
### AABB Tree
- Document constness of member functions of the `AABB_tree` class.
- The class `AABB_tree` is now guaranteed to be read-only thread-safe.
As usual in CGAL, this small overhead introduced for thread-safety
can be deactivated by defining `CGAL_HAS_NO_THREADS`.
### 2D Alpha Shapes
- Add an extra template parameter to the class `Alpha_shape_2` that
allows a certified construction using a traits class with exact
predicates and inexact constructions.
- An object of type `Alpha_shape_2` can now be constructed from a
triangulation.
### 3D Alpha Shapes
- Add an extra template parameter to the class `Alpha_shape_3` that
allows a certified construction using a traits class with exact
predicates and inexact constructions.
### Geometric Object Generators
- `Random_points_in_iso_box_d` (deprecated since 3.8) has been
removed. Use `Random_points_in_cube_d` instead.
### Linear and Quadratic Programming Solver
- Minor bugfix.
### Spatial Searching
- The const-correctness of this package have been worked out. The
transition for users should be smooth in general, however adding few
const in user code might be needed in some cases.
- The class `Kd_tree` is now guaranteed to be read-only thread-safe.
As usual in CGAL, this small overhead introduced for thread-safety
can be deactivated by defining `CGAL_HAS_NO_THREADS`.
- Bug-fix in `Orthogonal_incremental_neighbor_search` and
`Incremental_neighbor_search` classes. Several calls to `begin()`
now allow to make several nearest neighbor search queries
independently.
### STL Extension
- `CGAL::copy_n` is now deprecated for `CGAL::cpp0x::copy_n` which
uses `std::copy_n`, if available on the platform.
- `CGAL::successor` and `CGAL::predecessor` are now deprecated for
`CGAL::cpp0x::next` and `CGAL::cpp0x::prev`. These functions use the
standard versions if available on the platform. Otherwise,
`boost::next` and `boost::prior` are used.
### Triangulation\_2
- Fix a thread-safety issue in `Delaunay_triangulation_2` remove
functions. As usual in CGAL, the small overhead introduced for
thread-safety can be deactivated by defining `CGAL_HAS_NO_THREADS`.
- Add extraction operator for the class `Constrained_triangulation_2`
(and thus to all inheriting classes).
Release 3.9
-----------
Release date: September 2011
CGAL 3.9 offers the following improvements and new functionality :
### General
- The class `Root_of_2` is now deprecated. It is recommended to use
the class `Sqrt_extension` instead.
- The class `Sqrt_extension` is now used everywhere in CGAL where an
algebraic number of degree 2 is needed. This change has been done in
the `Root_of_traits` mechanism (indirectly packages 2D Circular
kernel and 3D Spherical kernel) and the packages 2D Segment Delaunay
Graphs and 2D Arrangements.
- Various fixes in the manual.
### Combinatorial Maps (new package)
- This package provides a new combinatorial data structure allowing to
describe any orientable subdivided object whatever its dimension. It
describes all cells of the subdivision and all the incidence and
adjacency relations between these cells. For example it allows to
describe a 3D object subdivided in vertices, edges, faces and
volumes. This data structure can be seen as the generalization in dD
of the halfedge data structure.
### 3D Convex Hull (major performance improvement)
- The quickhull implementation of CGAL (`CGAL::convex_hull_3`) has
been worked out to provide very better performances.
- The function `CGAL::convex_hull_3` no longer computes the plane
equations of the facets of the output polyhedron. However an example
is provided to show how to compute them easily.
- A global function `convex_hull_3_to_polyhedron_3` is now provided to
extract the convex hull of a 3D points set from a triangulation of
these points.
### dD Spatial Searching (major new feature added)
- A traits-class and distance adapter that together with a point
property map, allow to make nearest neighbor queries on keys instead
of points have been added.
- Few bug fixes in the documentation have revealed some
inconsistencies that have been corrected. Two traits class concept
are now documented (`RangeSearchTraits` and `SearchTraits`). Most
other changes concerns only classes documented as advanced. One
issue that user can encounter is due to an additional requirement on
the nested class `Construct_cartesian_const_iterator_d` defined in
the concept SearchTraits that must provide a nested type
`result_type`.
### Spatial Sorting (major new feature added)
- General dimension is now supported.
- Hilbert sorting admits now two policies: splitting at median or at
middle (see user manual).
- Using a property map, sorting on keys instead of points is now
easier
### dD Kernel
- The d-dimensional kernel concept and models have been modified to
additionally provide two new functors `Less_coordinate_d` and
`Point_dimension_d`.
### 2D Arrangements
- A new geometry-traits class that handles rational arcs, namely
`Arr_rational_function_traits_2`, has been introduced. It replaced
an old traits class, which handled the same family of curves, but it
was less efficient. The new traits exploits CGAL algebraic kernels
and polynomials, which were not available at the time the old traits
class was developed.
- A new geometry traits concept called
`ArrangementOpenBoundaryTraits_2` has been introduced. A model of
this concept supports curves that approach the open boundary of an
iso-rectangular area called parameter space, which can be unbounded
or bounded. The general code of the package, however, supports only
the unbounded parameter space. We intend to enhance the general code
to support also bounded parameter spaces in a future release.
- The deprecated member function `is_at_infinity()` of
`Arrangement_2::Vertex` has been removed. It has been previously
replaced new function `is_at_open_boundary()`.
- The tags in the geometry traits that indicate the type of boundary
of the embedding surface were replaced by the following new tags:
Left_side_category
Bottom_side_category
Top_side_category
Right_side_category
It is still possible not to indicate the tags at all. Default values
are assumed. This however will produce warning messages, and should
be avoided.
Release 3.8
-----------
Release date: April 2011
CGAL 3.8 offers the following improvements and new functionality :
### General
- Boost version 1.39 at least is now required.
- Initial support for the LLVM Clang compiler (prereleases of version
2.9).
- Full support for the options -strict-ansi of the Intel Compiler 11,
and -ansi of the GNU g++ compiler.
- Adding a concept of ranges. In the following releases, it will be
the way to provide a set of objects (vs. a couple of iterators).
- Fix a memory leak in CORE polynomials.
- Various fixes in the manual.
### 3D Mesh Generation (major new feature added)
- Adding the possibility to handle sharp features: the 3D Mesh
generation package now offers the possibility to get in the final
mesh an accurate representation of 1-dimensional sharp features
present in the description of the input domain.
### 2D Triangulations (major new feature added)
- Add a way to efficiently insert a range of points with information
into a 2D Delaunay and regular triangulation.
- Add member function mirror\_edge taking an edge as parameter.
- Fix an infinite loop in constrained triangulation.
### 3D Triangulations (major new feature added)
- Add a way to efficiently insert a range of points with information
into a 3D Delaunay and regular triangulation.
- Add a member function to remove a cluster of points from a Delaunay
or regular triangulation.
- function vertices\_in\_conflict is renamed
vertices\_on\_conflict\_zone\_boundary for Delaunay and regular
triangulation. Function vertices\_inside\_conflict\_zone is added to
regular triangulation.
- Structural filtering is now internally used in locate function of
Delaunay and regular triangulation. It improves average construction
time by 20%.
- Added demo.
### 3D Alpha Shapes (major new feature added)
- The new class Fixed\_alpha\_shape\_3 provides a robust and faster
way to compute one alpha shape (with a fixed value of alpha).
### AABB tree
- Adding the possibility to iteratively add primitives to an existing
tree and to build it only when no further insertion is needed.
### 2D and 3D Kernel
- Better handling of 2D points with elevation (3D points projected
onto trivial planes). More general traits classes
(Projection\_traits\_xy\_3,
Projection\_traits\_yz\_3,Projection\_traits\_yz\_3) are provided to
work with triangulations, algorithms on polygons, alpha-shapes,
convex hull algorithm... Usage of former equivalent traits classes
in different packages is now deprecated.
- Exact\_predicates\_exact\_constructions\_kernel now better use the
static filters which leads to performance improvements.
- Add an overload for the global function angle, taking three 3D
points.
- In the 2D and 3D kernel concept, the constant Boolean
Has\_filtered\_predicates is now deprecated. It is now required to
use Has\_filtered\_predicates\_tag (being either Tag\_true or
Tag\_false).
- Compare\_distance\_2 and Compare\_distance\_3 provide additional
operators for 3 and 4 elements.
- Add intersection test and intersection computation capabilities
between an object of type Ray\_3 and either an object of type
Line\_3, Segment\_3 or Ray\_3.
- Improve intersection test performance between an object of type
Bbox\_3 and an object of type Plane\_3 or Triangle\_3 by avoiding
arithmetic filter failures.
### 2D Envelope
- Env\_default\_diagram\_1 is deprecated, Envelope\_diagram\_1 should
be used instead.
### 3D Envelope
- A new demo program called `L1_Voronoi_diagram_2` has been
introduced. It demonstrates how 2D Voronoi diagrams of points under
the L1 metric are constructed using lower envelopes.
### dD Kernel
- Add functor Compute\_coordinate\_d to Kernel\_d concept.
### Geometric Object Generators
- CGAL::Random uses boost::rand48 instead of std::rand.
- Adding to CGAL::Random a way to generate random integers.
- Adding generators for dD points.
### Algebraic Foundations
- Algebraic\_structure\_traits now provides an Inverse functor for
Fields. There is also a new global function inverse.
### Bounding Volumes
- dD Min sphere of spheres has a new traits class for the min sphere
of points.
### Triangulated Surface Mesh Simplification
- The priority queue internally used to prioritize edge
simplifications is no longer a relaxed heap but a binomial heap.
This fix guarantees that all edges satisfying a simplification
criteria are removed (if possible).
### 3D Boolean Operations on Nef Polyhedra
- Allow construction of a 3D nef polyhedron from a 3D polyhedron with
normals.
### 2D Arrangements
- Fix a bug in the method insert\_at\_vertices of the Arrangement\_2
class.
- Fix several bugs in the traits class Arr\_Bezier\_curve\_traits\_2
for arrangement of Bezier curves.
### 2D Minkowski Sums
- A bug in the convolution method was fixed.
Release 3.7
-----------
Release date: October 2010
CGAL 3.7 offers the following improvements and new functionality :
### General
- The configuration of CGAL libraries now requires CMake>=2.6.
- Changes in the set of supported platforms:
- GNU g++ 4.5 supported (with or without the compilation option
-std=c++0x).
- Initial support for the option -strict-ansi of the Intel
Compiler 11. The CGAL libraries compile with that option, and
most CGAL headers have been fixed. The packages "3D Boolean
Operations on Nef Polyhedra" (Nef\_3), "Convex Decomposition of
Polyhedra" (Convex\_decomposition\_3), and "3D Minkowski Sum of
Polyhedra" (Minkowski\_sum\_3) are known to still fail to
compile with that compiler flag.
- The Microsoft Windows Visual C++ compiler 2010 (VC10), that was
experimentally supported by CGAL-3.6.1, is now fully supported.
Note that CMake>=2.8.2 is required for that support.
- The Microsoft Windows Visual C++ compiler 2005 (VC8) is no
longer supported by the CGAL project since CGAL-3.7.
- With Microsoft Windows Visual C++ (VC9 and VC10), the optional
dependencies Gmp, Mpfr, Blas, Lapack, Taucs no longer use
Boost-style name mangling. Only one variant is now provided by
the CGAL Windows installer (release, with dynamic runtime).
- Some demos now require a version of Qt4 >= 4.3.
- CGAL\_PDB is no longer provided with CGAL. An alternative solution
for people interested in reading PDB files is to use ESBTL
(http://esbtl.sourceforge.net/).
- Fix issues of the CGAL wrappers around the CORE library, on 64 bits
platforms.
### Arithmetic and Algebra
- New models Algebraic\_kernel\_d\_1 and Algebraic\_kernel\_d\_2 for
the corresponding concepts. They provide generic support for various
coefficient types
### Arrangements
- A new model Arr\_algebraic\_segment\_traits\_2 of
ArrangementTraits\_2 that supports algebraic curves of arbitrary
degree in the plane
### 2D Triangulations
- The Delaunay and regular 2D triangulations now use a symbolic
perturbation to choose a particular triangulation in co-circular
cases.
- The return type of the template member function insert(It beg, It
end), taking an iterator range of points, has been changed from int
to std::ptrdiff\_t.
- Classes Triangulation\_euclidean\_traits\_xy\_3,
Triangulation\_euclidean\_traits\_yz\_3 and
Triangulation\_euclidean\_traits\_xz\_3 are now model of the concept
ConstrainedTriangulationTraits\_2. They can be used with and without
intersection of constraints.
- 2D Delaunay and basic triangulations now provide vertex relocation
by the mean of these two new methods: move and
move\_if\_no\_collision. The methods are also available for the
hierarchy (Triangulation\_hierarchy\_2).
### 3D Triangulations
- The return type of the template member function insert(It beg, It
end), taking an iterator range of points, has been changed from int
to std::ptrdiff\_t.
- 3D Delaunay triangulations now provide vertex relocation by the mean
of these two new methods: move and move\_if\_no\_collision. This
works in both Compact\_policy and Fast\_policy.
### 2D and 3D Alpha Shapes
- The type int in the API has been changed to std::size\_t so that
CGAL can deal with large data sets (64 bit addresses).
### 2D Mesh Generation
- The execution of the 2D mesh generator is now deterministic (same at
each run).
### 3D Mesh Generation
- The efficiency of the 3D mesh generator has been improved (the
number of calls to the oracle per inserted vertex has globally
decrease). This is achieved through a slight change of the mesh
generator strategy which implies that a surface component that is
not detected at the surface mesher level will never be discovered by
chance, owing to the refinement of some tetrahedra, as it could
happen before. Please note that defining the macro
CGAL\_MESH\_3\_USE\_OLD\_SURFACE\_RESTRICTED\_DELAUNAY\_UPDATE
switches back to the old behavior.
- A demo program is now available.
### Surface Reconstruction from Point Sets
- Improved performance and minor bug fix.
### 2D Range and Neighbor Search
- The type int in the API has been changed to std::size\_t so that
CGAL can deal with large data sets (64 bit addresses).
Release 3.6.1
-------------
Release date: June 2010
This is a bug fix release. The following has been changed since
CGAL-3.6:
### General
- Fix compilation errors with recent Boost versions (since 1.40).
- Initial support for the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler 10.0 (MSVC
2010). For that support, CMake>=2.8.2 is required. Note also that
the compiler option "/bigobj" is necessary to compile some CGAL
programs with MSVC 2010.
### Polynomial
- Fix compilation errors with the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler and
the Intel C++ compiler.
### Polyhedron
- Fix a compilation errors in demo/Polyhedron/:
- issue with the location of qglobal.h of Qt4 on MacOS X,
- missing texture.cpp, if TAUCS is used,
- Fix the location of built plugins of demo/Polyhedron/, when CGAL is
configured with WITH\_demos=ON
### 3D Periodic Triangulations
- Fixed bug in the triangulation hierarchy for periodic
triangulations.
### 2D Mesh Generation
- Fix a bug that lead to precondition violation.
- Improve the user manual about the member function is\_in\_domain()
of the Face type.
- The 2D meshing process is now deterministic (sorting of bad faces no
longer relies on pointers comparisons).
### 3D Mesh Generation
- Fix a linking errors (duplicate symbols) when
`<CGAL/refine_mesh_3.h>` is included in different compilation units.
### Spatial Searching
- Fix a bug in `<CGAL/Orthogonal_k_neighbor_search.h>` when several
nearest neighbors are at the same distance from the query point.
### IO Streams
- Fix a bug in `<CGAL/IO/VRML_2_ostream.h>` that generated VRML 2
files with an invalid syntax for IndexedFaceSet nodes.
### Triangulation\_2
- Add missing Compare\_distance\_2 functor in trait classes
Triangulation\_euclidean\_traits\_xy\_3
Triangulation\_euclidean\_traits\_yz\_3 and
Triangulation\_euclidean\_traits\_xz\_3. This was preventing calling
member function nearest\_vertex of Delaunay\_triangulation\_2
instantiated with one of these traits.
Release 3.6
-----------
Release date: March 2010
CGAL 3.6 offers the following improvements and new functionality :
### General
- Boost version 1.34.1 at least is now required.
### Arithmetic and Algebra
#### Algebraic Kernel (new package)
- This new package is targeted to provide black-box implementations of
state-of-the-art algorithms to determine, compare and approximate
real roots of univariate polynomials and bivariate polynomial
systems. It includes models of the univariate algebraic kernel
concept, based on the library RS.
#### Number Types
- Two new arbitrary fixed-precision floating-point number types have
been added: the scalar type Gmpfr and the interval type Gmpfi, based
on the MPFR and MPFI libraries respectively.
### Geometry Kernels
#### 2D and 3D Geometry Kernel
- Add new do\_intersect() and intersection() overloads:
- do\_intersect(Bbox\_3, Bbox\_3/Line\_3/Ray\_3/Segment\_3)
- intersection(Triangle\_3, Line\_3/Ray\_3/Segment\_3)
### Polygons
#### 2D Regularized Boolean Set-Operations
- Fixed General\_polygon\_set\_2::arrangement() to return the proper
type of object.
### Arrangement
#### 2D Arrangements
- Fixed passing a (const) traits object to the constructor of
Arrangement\_2.
- Introduced Arrangement\_2::fictitious\_face(), which returns the
fictitious face in case of an unbounded arrangement.
- Fixed a bug in Bezier-curve handling.
- Added (back) iterator, number\_of\_holes(), holes\_begin(), and
holes\_end() to the default DCEL for backward compatibility.
- Added (simple) versions of the free overlay() function. It employs
the default overlay-traits, which practically does nothing.
### Polyhedron
- Fix a compilation errors in demo/Polyhedron/:
- issue with the location of qglobal.h of Qt4 on MacOS X,
- missing texture.cpp, if TAUCS is used,
- Fix the location of built plugins of demo/Polyhedron/, when CGAL is
configured with WITH\_demos=ON
- Fix a bug in test\_facet function of the incremental builder: the
function did not test if while a new facet makes a vertex manifold,
no other facet incident to that vertex breaks the manifold property.
### Triangulations and Delaunay Triangulations
#### 2D/3D Regular Triangulations
- Weighted\_point now has a constructor from Cartesian coordinates.
#### 3D Triangulations
- Regular\_triangulation\_3 : semi-static floating-point filters are
now used in its predicates, which can speed up its construction by a
factor of about 3 when
Exact\_predicates\_inexact\_constructions\_kernel is used.
- The class Regular\_triangulation\_filtered\_traits\_3 is deprecated,
the class Regular\_triangulation\_euclidean\_traits\_3 must be used
instead. The predicates of that traits will be filtered if the
kernel given as template parameter of that traits is itself a
filtered kernel.
- Triangulation\_hierarchy\_3 is now deprecated, and replaced by a
simpler CGAL::Fast\_location policy template parameter of
Delaunay\_triangulation\_3.
- The old version of remove() (enabled with
CGAL\_DELAUNAY\_3\_OLD\_REMOVE) has been deleted.
#### 3D Periodic Triangulations
- New demo: 3D periodic Lloyd algorithm.
- New functionality for Voronoi diagrams: dual of an edge and of a
vertex, volume and centroid of the dual of a vertex.
- The package can now be used with the 3D Alpha Shapes package to
compute periodic alpha shapes.
#### 3D Alpha shapes
- The class Weighted\_alpha\_shape\_euclidean\_traits\_3 is
deprecated, the class Regular\_triangulation\_euclidean\_traits\_3
must be used instead.
- The package can now be used together with the 3D Periodic
Triangulation package to compute periodic alpha shapes.
#### 2D/3D Triangulations, 2D Segment Delaunay Graph, 2D Apollonius Graph, and 3D Periodic Triangulations
- The constructor and insert function taking ranges now produce
structures whose iterator orders is now deterministic (same at each
run).
### Mesh Generation
#### 2D Mesh Generation
- The 2D mesh generator can now be used with a constrained Delaunay
triangulation with constraints hierarchy
(Constrained\_triangulation\_plus\_2).
- In some cases (refinement of a constrained edge that is on the
convex hull), the 2D mesh generator from CGAL-3.4 and CGAL-3.5 could
create invalid triangulations. This bug is now fixed.
#### 3D Mesh Generation
- The mesh generator has been enriched with an optimization phase to
provide 3D meshes with well shaped tetrahedra (and in particular no
slivers). The optimization phase involves four different
optimization processes: two global optimization processes (ODT and
Lloyd), a perturber and an exuder. Each of these processes can be
activated or not, and tuned to the users needs and to available
computer resources.
### Support library
#### CGAL ipelets
- Add support for version 7 of Ipe.
Release 3.5.1
-------------
Release date: December 2009
This is a bug fix release.
### Documentation
- Fixes in the documentation (the online documentation of CGAL-3.5 is
now based on CGAL-3.5.1).
- Fixes to the bibliographic references.
### Windows installer
- The Windows installer of CGAL-3.5.1 fixes an issue with downloading
of precompiled binaries of the external library TAUCS.
### Bug fixes in the following CGAL packages
#### AABB tree
- Fix a linker issue in do\_intersect(Bbox\_3,Bbox\_3).
- Fix compilation issue in do\_intersect(Bbox\_3,Ray\_3) when using
the parameters in this order.
#### 3D Mesh Generation
- Fix a bug in initial points construction of a polyhedral surface.
Release 3.5
-----------
Release date: October 2009
CGAL releases will now be published about every six months. As a
transition release, CGAL-3.5 has been developed during 9 months from the
release CGAL-3.4.
Version 3.5 differs from version 3.4 in the platforms that are supported
and in functionality. There have also been a number of bug fixes for
this release.
### General
- Additional supported platforms:
- GNU g++ 4.4 supported.
- Intel Compiler 11 supported on Linux
- Fixed ABI incompatibilities when mixing CGAL and Boost Program
Options on Windows/Visual C++ (the compilation flag
-D\_SECURE\_SCL=0 is not longer use in Debug mode).
### Geometry Kernels
#### 3D Spherical Geometry Kernel
- Add functionalities to manipulate circles, circular arcs and points
that belong to the same sphere.
### Polygons
#### 2D Regularized Boolean Set-Operations
- The polygon validation operations were enhanced and their interface
was improved. They are now offered as free functions and applied
properly.
#### 2D Straight Skeleton and Polygon Offsetting
- Updated the manual to document the new partial skeletons feature
(already in the code since 3.4)
### Arrangements
#### 2D Arrangements
- The member function is\_at\_infinity() of Arrangement\_2::Vertex was
replaced by the new function is\_at\_open\_boundary(). The former is
deprecated. While still supported in version 3.5, It will not be
supported in future releases. The member functions
boundary\_type\_in\_x() and boundary\_type\_in\_y() were permanently
replaced by the functions parameter\_space\_in\_x() and
parameter\_space\_in\_y(), respectively. The 2 new functions return
an enumeration of a new type, namely Arr\_parameter\_space.
- The tags in the geometry traits that indicate the type of boundary
of the embedding surface were replaced by the following new tags:
Arr\_left\_side\_tag Arr\_bottom\_side\_tag Arr\_top\_side\_tag
Arr\_right\_side\_tag In addition, the code was change, and now it
is possible not to indicate the tags at all. Default values are
assumed. This however will produce warning messages, and should be
avoided.
- All operations of the geometry traits-class were made 'const'. This
change was reflected in the code of this package and all other
packages that are based on it. Traits classes that maintain state,
should declare the data members that store the state as mutable.
#### Envelopes of Surfaces in 3D
- A few bugs in the code that computes envelopes were fixed, in
particular in the code that computes the envelopes of planes.
### Triangulations and Delaunay Triangulations
#### 3D Periodic Triangulations (new package)
- This package allows to build and handle triangulations of point sets
in the three dimensional flat torus. Triangulations are built
incrementally and can be modified by insertion or removal of
vertices. They offer point location facilities.
### Mesh Generation
#### Surface Reconstruction from Point Sets (new package)
- This CGAL package implements an implicit surface reconstruction
method: Poisson Surface Reconstruction. The input is an unorganized
point set with oriented normals.
#### 3D Mesh Generation (new package)
- This package generates 3 dimensional meshes. It computes isotropic
simplicial meshes for domains or multidomains provided that a domain
descriptor, able to answer queries from a few different types on the
domain, is given. In the current version, Mesh\_3 generate meshes
for domain described through implicit functional, 3D images or
polyhedral boundaries. The output is a 3D mesh of the domain volume
and conformal surface meshes for all the boundary and subdividing
surfaces.
### Geometry Processing
#### Triangulated Surface Mesh Simplification
- BREAKING API change in the passing of the visitor object.
- Fixed a bug in the link\_condition test
- Added a geometric test to avoid folding of facets
- Fixed a bug in the handling of overflow in the LindstromTurk
computations
- Updated the manual to account for the new visitor interface
#### Point Set Processing (new package)
- This packages implements a set of algorithms for analysis,
processing, and normal estimation and orientation of point sets.
### Spatial Searching and Sorting
#### AABB tree (new package)
- This package implements a hierarchy of axis-aligned bounding boxes
(a AABB tree) for efficient intersection and distance computations
between 3D queries and sets of input 3D geometric objects.
### Support Library
#### CGAL\_ipelets (new package):
- Object that eases the writing of Ipe's plugins that use CGAL.
Plugins for CGAL main 2D algorithm are provided as demo.
Release 3.4
-----------
Release date: January 2009
Version 3.4 differs from version 3.3.1 in the platforms that are
supported and in functionality. There have also been a number of bug
fixes for this release.
### General
- GNU g++ 4.3 supported. Support for g++ 3.3 is dropped.
- Visual 9 supported. Support for Visual 7 is dropped.
- Boost version 1.33 at least is now required.
- CGAL now depends on Boost.Threads, which implies to link against a
compiled part of Boost.
- The new macro CGAL\_NO\_DEPRECATED\_CODE can be defined to disable
deprecated code, helping users discover if they rely on code that
may be removed in subsequent releases.
- Assertion behaviour: It is not possible anymore to set the CONTINUE
mode for assertion failures. Functions that allow to change the
assertion behaviour are now declared in
`<CGAL/assertions_behaviour.h>`.
- Qt3 based demos are still there but the documentation has been
removed as the CGAL::Qt\_Widget will be deprecated.
- Qt4 based demos use the Qt GraphicsView framework and the
libQGLViewer.
### Installation
- install\_cgal has been replaced by CMake.
### Polynomial (new package)
- This package introduces a concept Polynomial\_d, a concept for
multivariate polynomials in d variables.
### Modular Arithmetic (new package)
- This package provides arithmetic over finite fields.
### Number Types
- the counter Interval\_nt::number\_of\_failures() has been removed,
replaced by a profiling counter enabled with CGAL\_PROFILE.
- Fix of a bug in CORE/Expr.h; as a consequence, the arrangement demo
works properly when handling arrangements of conics, for example,
when defining an arc with 5 points.
### 3D Spherical Geometry Kernel (new package)
- This package is an extension of the linear CGAL Kernel. It offers
functionalities on spheres, circles, circular arcs and line segments
in the 3D space.
### Linear Kernel
- We recommend that you use the object\_cast() function instead of
assign() to extract an object from a CGAL::Object, for efficiency
reasons.
- The Kernel archetypes provided by the 2D/3D linear kernel have been
removed.
- The deprecated linear kernel functors Construct\_supporting\_line\_2
and Construct\_supporting\_line\_3 have been removed.
- Ambiant\_dimension and Feature\_dimenison have been added to
retrieve the potentially compile-time dimension of a space or of an
object.
- barycenter() functions have been added.
- The geometric object Circle\_3 as well as predicates and
constructions have been added to the kernel
- The missing intersection/do\_intersect between Line\_3 and Line\_3
has been added as well.
### 3D Triangulations
- Removed the deprecated functions Cell:mirror\_index() and
Cell::mirror\_vertex().
- Derecursification of two functions that in some cases lead to stack
overflows
### 3D Nef Polyhedron
- n-ary union/intersection
- intersection with halfspace under standard kernel
- constructor for polylines
### CGAL and the Qt4 GraphicsView (new package)
- 2D CGAL Kernel objects and many data structures have can be rendered
in a QGraphicsView
### STL Extensions:
- The functor adaptors for argument binding and composition (bind\_\*,
compose, compose\_shared, swap\_\*, negate, along with the helper
functions set\_arity\_\* and Arity class and Arity\_tag typedefs)
which were provided by `<CGAL/functional.h>` have been removed.
Please use the better boost::bind mecanism instead. The concept
AdaptableFunctor has been changed accordingly such that only a
nested result\_type is required.
- The accessory classes Twotuple, Threetuple, Fourtuple and Sixtuple
are also deprecated (use CGAL::array instead).
- CGAL::Triple and CGAL::Quadruple are in the process of being
replaced by boost::tuple. As a first step, we strongly recommend
that you replace the direct access to the data members (.first,
.second, .third, .fourth), by the get<i>() member function;
and replace the make\_triple and make\_quadruple maker functions by
make\_tuple.
This way, in a further release, we will be able to switch to
boost::tuple more easily.
- The class CGAL::Uncertain<> has been documented. It is
typically used to report uncertain results for predicates using
interval arithmetic, and other filtering techniques.
### 2D Arrangements
- Changed the name of the arrangement package from Arrangement\_2 to
Arrangement\_on\_surface\_2 to reflect the potential capabilities of
the package to construct and maintain arrangements induced by curves
embedded on two dimensional surfaces in three space. Most of these
capabilities will become available only in future releases though.
- Enhanced the geometry traits concept to handle arrangements embedded
on surfaces. Each geometry-traits class must now define the
'Boundary\_category' tag.
- Fixed a bug in Arr\_polyline\_traits\_2.h, where the operator that
compares two curves failed to evaluate the correct result (true)
when the curves are different, but their graphs are identical.
- Permanently removed IO/Arr\_postscript\_file\_stream.h and
IO/Polyline\_2\_postscript\_file\_stream.h, as they depend on
obsolete features and LEDA.
- Fixed several bugs in the arrangement demo and enhanced it. e.g.,
fixed background color change, allowed vertex coloring , enabled
"smart" color selection, etc.
- Enhanced the arrangement demo with new features, such as allowing
the abortion of the merge function (de-select), updated the how-to
description, etc.
- Replace the functions CGAL::insert\_curve(), CGAL::insert\_curves(),
CGAL::insert\_x\_monotone\_curve(), and
CGAL::insert\_x\_monotone\_curves() with a single overloaded
function CGAL::insert(). The former 4 functions are now deprecated,
and may no longer be supported in future releases.
### Envelopes of Surfaces in 3D
- Fixed a bug in the computation of the envelope of unbounded planes
caused by multiple removals of vertices at infinity.
### 2D Regularized Boolean Set-Operations
- Fixed a bug in connect\_holes() that caused failures when connecting
holes touching the outer boundary.
- Fixed the concept GeneralPolygonSetTraits\_2. Introduced two new
concepts GpsTraitsGeneralPolygon\_2 and
GpsTraitsGeneralPolygonWithHoles\_2. Fixed the definition of the two
nested required types Polygon\_2 and Polygon\_with\_holes\_2 of the
GeneralPolygonSetTraits\_2 concept. They must model now the two new
concepts above.
- Added a default template parameter to 'General\_polygon\_set\_2' to
allow users to pass their specialized DCEL used to instantiate the
underlying arrangement.
- Enhanced the BOP demo to use multiple windows.
### 2D Minkowski Sums
- Fixed a few bugs in the approximate offset function, making it
robust to highly degenerate inputs.
- Fixed a bug in the exact Minkowski sum computation when processing
degenerate inputs that induce overlapping of contiguous segments in
the convolution cycles.
- Optimized the approximate offset function (reduced time consumption
up to a factor of 2 in some cases).
- Added functionality to compute the offset (or to approximate the
offset) of a Polygon\_with\_holes\_2 (and not just of a Polygon\_2).
- Added the functionality to compute (or to approximate) the inner
offset of a polygon.
Release 3.3.1
-------------
Release date: August 2007
This is a bug fix release.
### General
- Intel C++ 9 was wrongly recognized as unsupported by install\_cgal.
- Added autolink (for Visual C++) for the CGALImageIO and CGALPDB
libraries.
- Fixed bug in Memory\_sizer when using more than 4GB of memory
(64bit).
### Number Types
- Fixed bug in FPU rounding mode macros (affected only the alpha
architecture).
- Fixed bug in MP\_Float constructor from double for some particular
values.
- Fixed bug in to\_double(Lazy\_exact\_nt) sometimes returning NaN.
### Kernel
- Fixed forgotten derivation in Circular\_kernel\_2::Has\_on\_2
- Added some missing functions in Bbox\_3 compared to Bbox\_2.
### Skin Surface Meshing
- The new Skin Surface Meshing package had been forgotten in the list
of changes and the release announcement of CGAL 3.3: This package
allows to build a triangular mesh of a skin surface. Skin surfaces
are used for modeling large molecules in biological computing.
### Arrangements
- Fixed a bug in the Arrangement\_2 package in dual arrangement
representation for Boost graphs when reporting all halfedges of a
face.
- Fixed a bug in the Arrangement sweep-line when using a specific
polyline configuration.
- Fixed bug in Arrangement\_2 in walk along a line point location for
unbounded curves.
- Fixed bug in aggregated insertion to Arrangement\_2.
- Fixed bug in Arrangment\_2 class when inserting an unbounded curve
from an existing vertex.
- Fixed bug when dealing with a degenerate conic arc in
Arr\_conic\_traits\_2 of the Arrangment package, meaning a line
segment which is part of a degenerate parabola/hyperbola.
- Fixed bug in the Bezier traits-class: properly handle line segments.
properly handle comparison near a vertical tangency.
### 2D Polygon
- Fixed bug in degenerate case of Polygon\_2::is\_convex() for equal
points.
### 2D Triangulations
- Fixed bug in Regular\_triangulation\_2.
### 3D Triangulations
- Added a circumcenter() function in the default Cell type parameter
Triangulation\_ds\_cell\_base\_3, so that the .dual() member
function of Delaunay still work as before, without requiring the
explicit use of Triangulation\_cell\_base.
- Added missing operator->() to Facet\_circulator.
### Interpolation
- Fixed bug in Interpolation 3D about the normalization coefficient
initialization.
### 3D Boolean Operations on Nef Polyhedra
- Fixed bug in construction of Nef\_polyhedron\_3 from off-file. Now,
always the inner volume is selected.
- Fixed bug in conversion from Nef\_polyhedron\_3 to Polyhedron\_3.
Polyhedron\_3 was not cleared at the beginning.
- Fixed bug in Nef\_polyhedron\_3 in update of indexes for
construction of external structure.
### Third Party Libraries Shipped with CGAL
- TAUCS supports now 64 bits platforms.
- CAUTION: Since version 3.3.1, CGAL is no longer compatible with the
official release of TAUCS (currently 2.2). Make sure to use the
version modified by the CGAL project and available from the download
section of http://www.cgal.org.
Release 3.3
-----------
Release date: May 2007
Version 3.3 differs from version 3.2.1 in the platforms that are
supported and in functionality. There have also been a number of bug
fixes for this release.
Additional supported platforms
- GNU g++ 4.1 and 4.2
- Intel C++ compiler 9
- Microsoft Visual C++ compiler 8.0
The following platforms are no longer supported:
- Intel 8
CGAL now supports Visual C++ "Checked iterators" as well as the debug
mode of GNU g++'s STL (-D\_GLIBCXX\_DEBUG).
CGAL now works around the preprocessor macros 'min' and 'max' defined in
`<windows.h>` which were clashing with min/max functions.
### Installation
- On Windows the libraries built in Developer Studio now have names
which encode the compiler version, the runtime and whether it was
built in release or debug mode. The libraries to link against are
chosen with linker pragmas in header files.
- On all platforms but Windows shared and static versions of the
libraries are generated
### Manuals
- The Package Overview page now also hosts the precompiled demos.
### Algebraic Foundations
- Algebraic Foundations (new package)
This package defines what algebra means for CGAL, in terms of
concepts, classes and functions. The main features are: (i) explicit
concepts for interoperability of types (ii) separation between
algebraic types (not necessarily embeddable into the reals), and
number types (embeddable into the reals).
- Number Types
Fixed\_precision\_nt and Filtered\_exact number types have been
removed.
### Kernels
- 2D Circular Kernel
Efficiency improved through geometric filtering of predicates,
introduced with the filtered kernel
Filtered\_bbox\_circular\_kernel\_2<.>, and also chosen for
the predefined kernel Exact\_circular\_kernel\_2.
- Linear Kernel
Exact\_predicates\_exact\_constructions\_kernel memory and run-time
improvements through usage of lazy geometric constructions instead
of lazy arithmetic.
### Data Structures and Algorithms
- Surface Mesh Simplification (new package)
This package provides a mesh simplification framework using edge
collapse operations, and provides the Turk/Lindstrom simplification
algorithm.
- Skin Surface Meshing (new package)
This package allows to build a triangular mesh of a skin surface.
Skin surfaces are used for modeling large molecules in biological
computing. The surface is defined by a set of balls, representing
the atoms of the molecule, and a shrink factor that determines the
size of the smooth patches gluing the balls together.
- Estimation of Local Differential Properties (new package)
This package allows to compute local differential quantities of a
surface from a point sample
- Approximation of Ridges and Umbilics on Triangulated Surface Meshes
(new package)
This package enables the approximation of differential features on
triangulated surface meshes. Such curvature related features are
lines: ridges or crests, and points: umbilics.
- Envelopes of Curves in 2D (new package)
This package contains two sets of functions that construct the lower
and upper envelope diagram for a given range of bounded or unbounded
curves.
- Envelopes of Surfaces in 3D (new package)
This package contains two sets of functions that construct the lower
and upper envelope diagram for a given range of bounded or unbounded
surfaces. The envelope diagram is realized as a 2D arrangement.
- Minkowski Sums in 2D (new package)
This package contains functions for computing planar Minkowski sums
of two closed polygons, and for a polygon and a disc (an operation
also known as offsetting or dilating a polygon). The package also
contains an efficient approximation algorithm for the offset
computation, which provides a guaranteed approximation bound while
significantly expediting the running times w.r.t. the exact
computation procedure.
- Surface Mesh Parametrization
Added Jacobi and SSOR preconditioners to OpenNL solver, which makes
it much faster and more stable.
- 2D Arrangements
- Added support for unbounded curves.
- Added a traits class that supports bounded and unbounded linear
objects, namely lines, rays and line segments.
- Added traits classes that handle circular arcs based on the
circular kernel.
- Added a traits class that supports Bezier curves.
- Enhanced the traits class that supports rational functions to
handle unbounded (as well as bounded) arcs
- Added a free function called decompose() that produces the
symbolic vertical decomposition of a given arrangement,
performing a batched vertical ray-shooting query from all
arrangement vertices.
- Fixed a memory leak in the sweep-line code.
- Fixed a bug in computing the minor axis of non-degenerate
hyperbolas.
- Boolean Set Operations
- Added the DCEL as a default template parameter to the
General\_polygon\_set\_2 and Polygon\_set\_2 classes. This
allows users to extend the DCEL of the underlying arrangement.
- Added a function template called connect\_holes() that connects
the holes in a given polygon with holes, turning it into a
sequence of points, where the holes are connceted to the outer
boundary using zero-width passages.
- Added a non-const function member to General\_polygon\_set\_2
that obtains the underlying arrangement.
- 2D and 3D Triangulations
- The constructors and insert member functions which take an
iterator range perform spatial sorting in order to speed up the
insertion.
- Optimal Distances
- Polytope\_distance\_d: has support for homogeneous points;
bugfix in fast exact version.
- Bounding Volumes
- Min\_annulus\_d has support for homogeneous points; bugfix in
fast exact version.
### Support Library
- CGAL and the Boost Graph Library (BGL) (new package)
This package provides the glue layer for several CGAL data
structures such that they become models of the BGL graph concept.
- Spatial Sorting (new package)
This package allows to sort points and other objects along a Hilbert
curve which can improve the performance of algorithms like
triangulations. It is used by the constructors of the triangulation
package which have an iterator range of points as argument.
- Linear and Quadratic Programming Solver (new package)
This package contains algorithms for minimizing linear and convex
quadratic functions over polyhedral domains, described by linear
equations and inequalities.
Release 3.2.1
-------------
Release date: July 2006
This is a bug fix release
### Number Types
- Fix MP\_Float constructor which crashed for some values.
### Kernel
- Rename Bool to avoid a clash with a macro in X11 headers.
### Arrangement
- Derived the Arr\_segment\_traits\_2 Arrangement\_2 traits class from
the parameterized Kernel. This allows the use of this traits class
in an extended range of applications that require kernel objects and
operations on these objects beyond the ones required by the
Arrangement\_2 class itself.
- Fixed a compilation bug in the code that handles overlay of
arrangements instantiated with different DCEL classes.
- Fixed a couple of bugs in the implementation of the Trapezoidal RIC
point-location strategy
### Triangulation, Alpha Shapes
- Qualify calls to filter\_iterator with "CGAL::" to avoid overload
ambiguities with Boost's filter\_iterator.
### Surface Mesher
- Fixed a bug in iterators of the class template
Surface\_mesh\_complex\_2\_in\_triangulation\_3
### Surface Mesh Parametrisation
- Updated the precompiled taucs lib
### Kinetic Data Structures
- Fixed problems caused by old versions of gcc being confused by
operator! and operator int()
- Added point removal support to the Active\_objects\_vector
Release 3.2
-----------
Release date: May 2006
Version 3.2 differs from version 3.1 in the platforms that are supported
and in functionality. There have also been a number of bug fixes for
this release.
The following platforms are no longer supported:
- SunPro CC versions 5.4 and 5.5 on Solaris
- SGI Mips Pro
For Visual C++ the installation scripts choose the multi-threaded
dynamically linked runtime (/MD). Before it was the single-threaded
static runtime (/ML).
### Installation
- The install tool tries to find third party libraries at "standard"
locations.
- Installers for Apple, Windows, and rpms.
### Manuals
- User and Reference manual pages of a package are in the same chapter
### Kernels
- 2D Circular Kernel (new package)
This package is an extension of the linear CGAL Kernel. It offers
functionalities on circles, circular arcs and line segments in the
plane.
### Data Structures and Algorithms
- 2D Regularized Boolean Set-Operations (new package)
This package consists of the implementation of Boolean
set-operations on point sets bounded by weakly x-monotone curves in
2-dimensional Euclidean space. In particular, it contains the
implementation of regularized Boolean set-operations, intersection
predicates, and point containment predicates.
- 2D Straight Skeleton and Polygon Offsetting (new package)
This package implements an algorithm to construct a halfedge data
structure representing the straight skeleton in the interior of 2D
polygons with holes and an algorithm to construct inward offset
polygons at any offset distance given a straight skeleton.
- 2D Voronoi Diagram Adaptor (new package)
This package provides an adaptor that adapts a 2-dimensional
triangulated Delaunay graph to the corresponding Voronoi diagram,
represented as a doubly connected edge list (DCEL) data structure.
The adaptor has the ability to automatically eliminate, in a
consistent manner, degenerate features of the Voronoi diagram, that
are artifacts of the requirement that Delaunay graphs should be
triangulated even in degenerate configurations. Depending on the
type of operations that the underlying Delaunay graph supports, the
adaptor allows for the incremental or dynamic construction of
Voronoi diagrams and can support point location queries.
- 3D Surface Mesher (new package)
This package provides functions to generate surface meshes that
interpolate smooth surfaces. The meshing algorithm is based on
Delaunay refinement and provides some guarantees on the resulting
mesh: the user is able to control the size and shape of the mesh
elements and the accuracy of the surface approximation. There is no
restriction on the topology and number of components of input
surfaces. The surface mesher may also be used for non smooth
surfaces but without guarantee.
Currently, implementations are provided for implicit surfaces
described as the zero level set of some function and surfaces
described as a gray level set in a three-dimensional image.
- 3D Surface Subdivision Methods (new package)
Subdivision methods recursively refine a control mesh and generate
points approximating the limit surface. This package consists of
four popular subdivision methods and their refinement hosts.
Supported subdivision methods include Catmull-Clark, Loop, Doo-Sabin
and sqrt(3) subdivisions. Their respective refinement hosts are PQQ,
PTQ, DQQ and sqrt(3) refinements. Variations of those methods can be
easily extended by substituting the geometry computation of the
refinement host.
- Planar Parameterization of Triangulated Surface Meshes (new
package)
Parameterizing a surface amounts to finding a one-to-one mapping
from a suitable domain to the surface. In this package, we focus on
triangulated surfaces that are homeomorphic to a disk and on
piecewise linear mappings into a planar domain. This package
implements some of the state-of-the-art surface mesh
parameterization methods, such as least squares conformal maps,
discrete conformal map, discrete authalic parameterization, Floater
mean value coordinates or Tutte barycentric mapping.
- Principal Component Analysis (new package)
This package provides functions to compute global informations on
the shape of a set of 2D or 3D objects such as points. It provides
the computation of axis-aligned bounding boxes, centroids of point
sets, barycenters of weighted point sets, as well as linear least
squares fitting for point sets in 2D, and point sets as well as
triangle sets in 3D.
- 2D Placement of Streamlines (new package)
Visualizing vector fields is important for many application domains.
A good way to do it is to generate streamlines that describe the
flow behaviour. This package implements the "Farthest Point Seeding"
algorithm for placing streamlines in 2D vector fields. It generates
a list of streamlines corresponding to an input flow using a
specified separating distance. The algorithm uses a Delaunay
triangulation to model objects and adress different queries, and
relies on choosing the centers of the biggest empty circles to start
the integration of the streamlines.
- Kinetic Data Structures (new package)
Kinetic data structures allow combinatorial structures to be
maintained as the primitives move. The package provides
implementations of kinetic data structures for Delaunay
triangulations in two and three dimensions, sorting of points in one
dimension and regular triangulations in three dimensions. The
package supports exact or inexact operations on primitives which
move along polynomial trajectories.
- Kinetic Framework (new package)
Kinetic data structures allow combinatorial geometric structures to
be maintained as the primitives move. The package provides a
framework to ease implementing and debugging kinetic data
structures. The package supports exact or inexact operations on
primitives which move along polynomial trajectories.
- Smallest Enclosing Ellipsoid (new package)
This algorithm is new in the chapter Geometric Optimisation.
- 2D Arrangement (major revision)
This package can be used to construct, maintain, alter, and display
arrangements in the plane. Once an arrangement is constructed, the
package can be used to obtain results of various queries on the
arrangement, such as point location. The package also includes
generic implementations of two algorithmic frameworks, that are,
computing the zone of an arrangement, and line-sweeping the plane,
the arrangements is embedded on.
Arrangements and arrangement components can also be extended to
store additional data. An important extension stores the
construction history of the arrangement, such that it is possible to
obtain the originating curve of an arrangement subcurve.
- Geometric Optimisation (major revision)
The underlying QP solver which is the foundation for several
algorithms in the Geometric Optimisation chapter has been completely
rewritten.
- 3D Triangulation (new functionality)
Regular\_triangulation\_3 now offers vertex removal.
Release 3.1
-----------
Release date: December 2004
Version 3.1 differs from version 3.0 in the platforms that are supported
and in functionality. There have also been a number of bug fixes for
this release.
Additional supported platforms:
- MS Visual C++, version 7.3. and 8.0
- Intel 8.0
- SunPro CC versions 5.4 and 5.5 on Solaris
- GNU g++ versions 3.4 on Linux, Solaris, Irix, cygwin, FreeBSD, and
MacOS X
- Darwin (MacOS X) and IA64/Linux support.
The following platforms are no longer supported:
- MS Visual C++, version 7.0
The following functionality has been added or changed:
### All
- The CORE 1.7 library for exact real arithmetic.
- Updated GMP to 4.1.3.
- Added Mpfr a library for multiple-precision floating-point
computations with exact rounding.
- Added Boost 1.32.0 (only include files).
### Installation
- new option --disable-shared to omit building libCGAL.so.
### Manuals
- Merged all major manuals in one multi-part manual, which provides
now cross-links between the CGAL Kernel, the CGAL Basic Library, and
the CGAL Support Library HTML manuals.
- Improved layout.
### Kernels
- Improved efficiency of filtered kernels.
- More predicates and constructions.
### Basic Library
- 2D Segment Voronoi Diagram (new package)
A data structure for Voronoi diagrams of segments in the plane under
the Euclidean metric. The Voronoi edges are arcs of straight lines
and parabolas. The algorithm provided in this package is
incremental.
- 2D Conforming Triangulations and Meshes (new package)
An implementation of Shewchuk's algorithm to construct conforming
triangulations and 2D meshes.
- 3D Boolean Operations on Nef Polyhedra (new package)
A new class (Nef\_polyhedron\_3) representing 3D Nef polyhedra, a
boundary representation for cell-complexes bounded by halfspaces
that supports boolean operations and topological operations in full
generality including unbounded cells, mixed dimensional cells (e.g.,
isolated vertices and antennas). Nef polyhedra distinguish between
open and closed sets and can represent non-manifold geometry.
- 2D and Surface Function Interpolation (new package)
This package implements different methods for scattered data
interpolation: Given measures of a function on a set of discrete
data points, the task is to interpolate this function on an
arbitrary query point. The package further offers functions for
natural neighbor interpolation.
- Planar Nef polyhedra embedded on the sphere (new package)
A new class (Nef\_polyhedron\_S2) designed and supported mainly to
represent sphere neighborhoods around vertices of the three-
dimensional Nef polyhedra.
- Box\_intersection\_d (new package)
A new efficient algorithm for finding all intersecting pairs for
large numbers of iso-oriented boxes, i.e., typically these will be
bounding boxes of more complicated geometries. Useful for (self-)
intersection tests of surfaces etc.
- 2D Snap Rounding (new package)
Snap Rounding is a well known method for converting
arbitrary-precision arrangements of segments into a fixed-precision
representation. In the study of robust geometric computing, it can
be classified as a finite precision approximation technique.
Iterated Snap Roundingis a modification of Snap Rounding in which
each vertex is at least half-the-width-of-a-pixel away from any
non-incident edge. This package supports both methods.
- 3D Triangulations
- Triangulation\_3: added operator==(),removed push\_back() and
copy\_triangulation().
- Delaunay\_3 : added nearest\_vertex(), move\_point(),
vertices\_in\_conflict().
- Regular\_3 : added filtered traits class, and
nearest\_power\_vertex().
- Planar\_map and Arrangement\_2
- The interface of the two traits functions that compute the
intersection of two given curves changed. The functions
nearest\_intersection\_to\_right() and
nearest\_intersection\_to\_left() return an object of type
CGAL::Object that represents either an empty intersection, a
point, or an overlapping subcurve.
- Requirements to define two binary tags were added to the traits
concept of the Planar\_map as follows: *Has\_left\_category* -
indicates whether the functions
curves\_compare\_y\_at\_x\_left() and
nearest\_intersection\_to\_left() are implemented in the traits
model. *Has\_reflect\_category* - indicates whether the
functions point\_reflect\_in\_x\_and\_y() and
curve\_reflect\_in\_x\_and\_y() are implemented in the traits
model. They can be used as an alternative to the two function in
the previous item.
- A new constructor of the Segment\_cached\_2 type that represents
a segment in the Arr\_segment\_cached\_traits\_2 traits class
was introduced. The new constructor accepts the segment
endpoints as well as the coefficients of the underlying line.
- A new version of the conic-arc traits, based on CORE version 1.7
was introduced. This new traits class makes use of CORE's
rootOf() operator to compute the intersection points in the
arrangement, making its code much simpler and more elegant than
the previous version. In addition, new constructors for conic
arcs are provided. The new traits class usually performs about
30% faster than the version included in CGAL 3.0
- The traits class that handles continuous piecewise linear
curves, namely Arr\_polyline\_traits\_2, was rewritten. The new
class is parametrized with a traits class that handles segments,
say Segment\_traits. The polyline curve defined within the
Arr\_polyline\_traits\_2 class is implemented as a vector of
segments of type Segment\_traits::Curve\_2.
- A meta traits class, namely Arr\_curve\_data\_traits\_2, that
extends the curve type of the planar-map with arbitrary
additional data was introduced. It should be instantiated with a
regular traits-class and a class that contains all extraneous
data associated with a curve.
- The class that represents the trapezoidal-decomposition point
location strategy was renamed to
Pm\_trapezoid\_ric\_point\_location.
- The Arrangement demo was rewritten. It covers many more
features, has a much better graphical user interface, and comes
with online documentation.
- Few bugs in the sweep-line module related to overlapping
vertical segments were fixed. This module is used by the
aggregate insert method that inserts a collection of curves at
once.
- Triangulation\_2
- added a filtered trait class in the regular triangulation
- added split and join operations in the triangulation data
structure class
- Alpha\_shapes\_3
- major changes in the implementation of the class
Alpha\_shapes\_3.
- New implementation results in a true GENERAL mode allowing null
and negative alpha-values. It also fixed the edges
classification bug and introduces a classification of vertices.
- Min\_ellipse\_2
- made access to approximate double representation public
- fixed bugs in conversion to double representation
- added `is_circle()` method
- minor performance improvements
- Min\_sphere\_of\_spheres\_d:
- The models
`Min_sphere_of_spheres_d_traits_2<K,FT,UseSqrt,Algorithm>`,
`Min_sphere_of_spheres_d_traits_3<K,FT,UseSqrt,Algorithm>`, and
`Min_sphere_of_spheres_d_traits_d<K,FT,Dim,UseSqrt,Algorithm>`
of concept `MinSphereOfSpheresTraits` now represent a sphere as
a `std::pair<Point,Radius>` (and not any more as a
`CGAL::Weighted_point<Point,Weight>`)
- Internal code cleanup; in particular, implementation details
don't pollute the namespace CGAL anymore
- Polyhedron\_3
- New Tutorial on CGAL Polyhedron for Subdivision Algorithms with
interactive demo viewer in source code available.
- Added example program for efficient self-intersection test. -
Added small helper functions, such as vertex\_degree,
facet\_degree, edge\_flip, and is\_closed.
- Apollonius Graph (Voronoi of Circles)
- Reduced memory requirements by approximately a factor of two.
Release 3.0.1
-------------
Release date: February 2004
This is a bug-fix release. No new features have been added in 3.0.1.
Here is the list of bug-fixes.
### Polyhedral Surface
- Fixed wrong include files for output support. Added example.
### Planar\_map
- Fixed the so called "Walk-along-a-line" point-location strategy to
correctly handle a degenerate case.
### 2D Triangulation
- added missing figure in html doc
- in Line\_face\_circulator\_2.h:
Fixed changes made to support handles with a typedef to iterator.
The fix concerns operator== and !=.
### Alpha\_shapes\_3
- fixed classify member function for edges.
### Number types
- Lazy\_exact\_nt:
- added the possibility to select the relative precision of
`to_double()` (by default 1e-5). This should fix reports that
some circumcenters computations have poor coordinates, e.g.
nan).
- when exact computation is triggered, the interval is recomputed,
this should speed up some kinds of computations.
- `to_interval(Quotient<MP_Float>)`: avoid spurious overflows.
### Kernel
- missing acknowledgment in the manual and minor clarification of
`intersection()` documentation.
Release 3.0
-----------
Release date: October 2003
Version 3.0 differs from version 2.4 in the platforms that are supported
and in functionality. There have also been a number of bug fixes for
this release.
The license has been changed to either the LGPL (GNU Lesser General
Public License v2.1) or the QPL (Q Public License v1.0) depending on
each package. So CGAL remains free of use for you, if your usage meets
the criteria of these licenses, otherwise, a commercial license has to
be purchased from GeometryFactory.
Additional supported platforms:
- MS Visual C++, version 7.1.
- SunPro CC versions 5.4 and 5.5 on Solaris
- GNU g++ versions 3.2 and 3.3 on Linux, Solaris, Irix, cygwin, and
FreeBSD.
- MipsPRO CC 7.30 and 7.40 with both the n32 and n64 ABIs.
The following platforms are no longer supported:
- MS Visual C++, version 6.
- GNU g++ 2.95.2 (2.95.3 is still supported)
- Kai C++ and Borland C++, all versions
The following functionality has been added or changed:
**All**
- The CORE library for exact computations is now distributed as part
of CGAL as well.
### Kernels
- 3 typedefs have been added to ease the choice of a robust and fast
kernel:
- Exact\_predicates\_inexact\_constructions\_kernel
- Exact\_predicates\_exact\_constructions\_kernel
- Exact\_predicates\_exact\_constructions\_kernel\_with\_sqrt
- Progress has been made towards the complete adaptability and
extensibility of our kernels.
- New faster Triangle\_3 intersection test routines.
*(see Erratum)*
- Added a Kernel concept archetype to check that generic algorithms
don't use more functionality than they should.
- A few more miscellaneous functions.
### Basic Library
- 2D Apollonius Graph (new package)
Algorithms for computing the Apollonius graph in two dimensions. The
Apollonius graph is the dual of the Apollonius diagram, also known
as the additively weighted Voronoi diagram. The latter can be
thought of as the Voronoi diagram of a set of circles under the
Euclidean metric, and it is a generalization of the standard Voronoi
diagram for points. The algorithms provided are dynamic.
- dD Min Sphere of Spheres (new package)
Algorithms to compute the smallest enclosing sphere of a given set
of spheres in R<sup>d</sup>. The package provides an algorithm with
maximal expected running time *O(2<sup>O(d)</sup> n)* and a fast and
robust heuristic (for dimension less than 30).
- Spatial Searching (new package)
Provides exact and approximate distance browsing in a set of points
in *d*-dimensional space using implementations of algorithms
supporting:
- both nearest and furthest neighbor searching
- both exact and approximate searching
- (approximate) range searching
- (approximate) *k*-nearest and *k*-furthest neighbor searching
- (approximate) incremental nearest and incremental furthest
neighbor searching
- query items representing points and spatial objects.
- **Kd-tree**
this package is deprecated, its documentation is removed. It is
replaced by the Spatial Searching package.
- Largest\_empty\_rectangle\_2
Given a set of points P in the plane, the class
Largest\_empty\_iso\_rectangle\_2 is a data structure that maintains
an iso-rectangle with the largest area among all iso-rectangles that
are inside a given iso-rectangle bounding box, and that do not
contain any point of the point set P.
- 2D Triangulation and 3D Triangulation
- The classes Triangulation\_data\_structure\_2 (and 3), which
implements the data structure for 2D triangulation class, now
makes use of CGAL::Compact\_container (see Support Library
section below).
- The triangulation classes use a Rebind mecanism to provide the
full flexibility on Vertex and Face base classes. This means
that it is possible for the user to derive its own Face of
Vertex base class, adding a functionality that makes use of
types defined by the triangulation data structure like
Face\_handle or Vertex\_handle.
- New classes Triangulation\_vertex\_base\_with\_info\_2 (and 3)
and Triangulation\_face\_base\_with\_info\_2 (and 3) to make
easier the customisation of base classes in most cases.
- 2D Triangulation
- Regular triangulation provides an easy access to hidden points.
- The Triangulation\_hierarchy\_2, which provide an efficient
location data structure, can now be used with any 2D
triangulation class plugged in (including Regular
triangulations).
- 3D Triangulation
- faster vertex removal function in Delaunay\_triangulation\_3.
- Delaunay\_triangulation\_3 is now independent of the order of
insertions of the points (in case of degenerate cosphericity).
- Regular\_triangulation\_3 now hides vertices (and updates
itself) when inserting a coinciding point with greater weight.
This required a new predicate.
- deprecated functions: copy\_triangulation(), push\_back(),
set\_number\_of\_vertices().
- Triangulation\_3 now gives non-const access to the data
structure.
- Interval Skip List (new package)
An interval skip list is a data strucure for finding all intervals
that contain a point, and for stabbing queries, that is for
answering the question whether a given point is contained in an
interval or not.
- Planar Maps and Arrangements
The changes concern mainly the traits classes.
1. New traits hierarchy and interface: The set of requirements was
made sound and complete. A couple of requirements were
eliminated, few others were redefined, and some were renamed. A
hierarchy of three traits classes for the Planar\_map\_2,
Planar\_map\_with\_intersections\_2, and Arrangement\_2 types
was established to include only the necessary requirements at
each level. It was determined that for the aggregate insertion-
operation based on a sweep-line algorithm only a subset of the
requirements is needed. Preconditions were added where
appropriate to tighten the requirements further.
The following functions have been renamed:
- point\_is\_same() renamed to point\_equal()
- curve\_is\_same() renamed to curve\_equal()
- curve\_is\_in\_x\_range() renamed to point\_in\_x\_range()
- curve\_compare\_at\_x() renamed to
curves\_compare\_y\_at\_x() Furthermore, a precondition has
been added that the reference point is in the x-range of
both curves.
- curve\_compare\_at\_x\_right() renamed to
curves\_compare\_y\_at\_x\_to\_right(). Furthermore, a
precondition has been added that both curves are equal at
the reference point and defined to its right.
- curve\_compare\_at\_x\_left() renamed to
curves\_compare\_y\_at\_x\_to\_left(). Furthermore, a
precondition has been added that both curves are equal at
the reference point and defined to its right.
- curve\_get\_point\_status() renamed to
curve\_compare\_y\_at\_x(). Furthermore, a precondition has
been added that the point is in the x-range of the curve.
Consequently, the function now returns a Comparison\_result
(instead of a special enum).
- make\_x\_monotone() renamed to curve\_make\_x\_monotone()
See more details below.
- curve\_flip() renamed to curve\_opposite()
The following functions have been removed:
- curve\_is\_between\_cw()
- point\_to\_left()
- point\_to\_right()
- is\_x\_monotone()
- point\_reflect\_in\_x\_and\_y()
- curve\_reflect\_in\_x\_and\_y()
- do\_intersect\_to\_right()
- do\_intersect\_to\_left()
Most functions, are required by the PlanarMapTraits\_2 concept,
except for the make\_x\_monotone(),
nearest\_intersection\_to\_right(),
nearest\_intersection\_to\_left(), curves\_overlap() and
curve\_opposite(). PlanarMapWithIntersectionsTraits\_2 requires
all these functions, except curve\_opposite(), needed only by
the ArrangementTraits\_2 concept.
Furthermore, the two functions curve\_compare\_at\_x\_left() and
nearest\_intersection\_to\_left() can be omitted, if the two
functions point\_reflect\_in\_x() and curve\_reflect\_in\_x()
are implemented. Reflection can be avoided, if the two \_left
functions are supplied.
2. The type X\_curve\_2 of the PlanarMapWithIntersectionsTraits\_2
concept was renamed to X\_monotone\_curve\_2, and the
distinction between this type and the Curve\_2 type was made
firm. The method is\_x\_monotone() of the
PlanarMapWithIntersectionsTraits\_2 concept was removed. The
related method curve\_make\_x\_monotone() is now called for each
input curve of type Curve\_2 when curves are inserted into a
Planar\_map\_with\_intersections\_2 to subdivide the input curve
into x-monotone sub-curves (and in case the curve is already
x-monotone, this function is responsible for casting it to an
x-monotone curve).
3. New and improved traits classes:
4. Conic traits - Arr\_conic\_traits\_2 Support finite segments of
ellipses, hyperbolas and parabolas, as well as line segments.
The traits require an exact real number- type, such as
leda\_real or CORE::Expr.
5. Segment cached traits - Arr\_segment\_cached\_traits\_2 This
class uses an improved representation for segments that helps
avoiding cascaded computations, thus achieving faster running
times. To work properly, an exact rational number-type should be
used.
6. Polyline traits - Arr\_polyline\_traits\_2 The polyline traits
class has been reimplemented to work in a more efficient,
generic manner. The new class replaces the obsolete
Arr\_polyline\_traits class. It is parameterized with a segment
traits class.
7. Hyperbola and segment traits - Arr\_hyper\_segment\_traits\_2
Supports line segments and segments of canonical hyperbolas.
This is the type of curves that arise when projecting segments
in three-space rotationally around a line onto a plane
containing the line. Such projections are often useful in
CAD/CAM problems.
8. Removed old traits class:
- The models of the PlanarMapWithIntersectionsTraits\_2
concept below became obsolete, as the new conic traits,
namely Arr\_conic\_traits\_2, supports the same
functionality and is much more efficient.
- Arr\_circles\_real\_traits
- Arr\_segment\_circle\_traits
- The segment traits class and the new polyline traits class
were reimplemented using standard CGAL-kernel calls. This
essentially eliminated the corresponding leda traits
classes, namely:
- Pm\_leda\_segment\_traits\_2
- Arr\_leda\_segment\_traits\_2
- Arr\_leda\_polyline\_traits
With the use of the Leda\_rat\_kernel new external package
the same functionality can be achieved with less overhead
and more efficiency.
9. Sweep Line
- The Sweep\_line\_2 package was reimplemented. As a
consequence it is much more efficient, its traits is tighter
(namely neither the two \_left nor the reflection functions
are required), and its interface has changed a bit.
1. The following global functions have been removed:
- sweep\_to\_produce\_subcurves\_2()
- sweep\_to\_produce\_points\_2()
- sweep\_to\_construct\_planar\_map\_2()
Instead, the public methods of the Sweep\_line\_2 class
listed below were introduced:
- get\_subcurves() - Given a container of curves, this
function returns a list of curves that are created
by intersecting the input curves.
- get\_intersection\_points() - Given a range of
curves, this function returns a list of points that
are the intersection points of the curves.
- get\_intersecting\_curves() - Given a range of
curves, this function returns an iterator to the
beginning of a range that contains the list of
curves for each intersection point between any two
curves in the specified range.
2. It is possible to construct a planar map with
intersections (or an arrangement) by inserting a range
of curves into an empty map. This will invoke the
sweep-line process to construct the map more
efficiently.
- New interface functions to the
Planar\_map\_with\_intersections\_2 class. The
Planar\_map\_with\_intersections\_2 class maintains a planar
map of input curves that possibly intersect each other and
are not necessarily x-monotone. If an input curve, or a set
of input curves, are known to be x-monotone and pairwise
disjoint, the new functions below can be used to insert them
into the map efficiently.
- Polyhedral Surface
- The old design that was deprecated since CGAL 2.3 has been
removed.
- Class `Polyhedron_incremental_builder_3`:
- Renamed local enum `ABSOLUTE` to `ABSOLUTE_INDEXING`, and
`RELATIVE` to `RELATIVE_INDEXING` to avoid conflicts with
similarly named macros of another library.
- Changed member functions `add_vertex()`, `begin_facet()`,
and `end_facet()` to return useful handles.
- Added `test_facet()` to check facets for validity before
adding them.
- Added `vertex( size_t i)` to return `Vertex_handle` for
index `i`.
- Halfedge Data Structure
- The old design that was deprecated since CGAL 2.3 has been
removed.
### Support Library
- New container class Compact\_container, which (roughly) provides the
flexibility of std::list, with the memory compactness of
std::vector.
- Geomview\_stream: added a function gv.draw\_triangles(InputIterator
begin, InputIterator end) which draws a set of triangles much more
quickly than one by one.
- Number types:
- number types are now required to provide a function:
std::pair<double, double> to\_interval(const NT &).
- number types are now required to provide mixed operators with
"int".
- CLN support removed.
- faster square() for MP\_Float.
- added Gmp\_q.
- Qt\_widget:
- New classes:
- Qt\_help\_window: provides a simple way to show some helpful
information about a demo as an HTML page.
- Qt\_widget\_history: provides basic functionality to
manipulate intervals of Qt\_widget class. The current
visible area of Qt\_widget is mapped to an interval. Each
interval could be stored in the Qt\_widget\_history object.
So you can use this object to navigate in history. It is
mostly used by Qt\_widget\_standard\_toolbar.
- Changes:
- Qt\_widget\_standard\_toolbar: is derived from QToolBar
class, so pay attention to modify your code, if you used
this class. Some public methods were introduced to control
the history object that the toolbar use to navigate.
- the icons are now part of libCGALQt.
- Deprecated members of Qt\_widget:
- add\_to\_history(), clear\_history(), back(), forth(): use
forward(), back() and clear\_history() of the
Qt\_widget\_standard\_toolbar instead.
- custom\_redraw(): use redraw\_on\_back() and
redraw\_on\_front() instead.
- Optimizations: the output operators of the following classes
have been optimized:
- CGAL::Segment\_2 (now tests for intersection with the
drawing area)
- CGAL::Triangle\_2 (now tests for intersection with the
drawing area)
- CGAL::Triangulation\_2 (is optimized for faster display on
zooming)
### Erratum in the Kernel manual
- Intersection test routines
The documentation of CGAL::do\_intersect should mention, for the 3D
case:
Also, in three-dimensional space *Type1* can be
- either *Plane\_3<Kernel>*
- or *Triangle\_3<Kernel>*
and *Type2* any of
- *Plane\_3<Kernel>*
- *Line\_3<Kernel>*
- *Ray\_3<Kernel>*
- *Segment\_3<Kernel>*
- *Triangle\_3<Kernel>*
In the same way, for *Kernel::DoIntersect\_3*:
for all pairs *Type1* and *Type2*, where the type *Type1* is
- either *Kernel::Plane\_3*
- or *Kernel::Triangle\_3*
and *Type2* can be any of the following:
- *Kernel::Plane\_3*
- *Kernel::Line\_3*
- *Kernel::Ray\_3*
- *Kernel::Segment\_3*
- *Kernel::Triangle\_3*
Philippe Guigue (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis) should be mentioned as one
of the authors.
Release 2.4
-----------
Release date: May 2002
Version 2.4 differs from version 2.3 in the platforms that are supported
and in functionality. There have also been a number of bug fixes for
this release.
Additional supported platforms:
- Microsoft Visual C++, version 7.
- SunPro 5.3 (with patch 111685-05) on Solaris
- g++ 3.1 on Linux and Solaris
The following functionality has been added or changed:
### Kernels
- Point\_d has been removed from the 2D and 3D kernels. This type is
now available from the d-dimensional kernel only.
### Basic Library
- 2D Polygon Partitioning
Traits requirements for optimal partitioning have been changed
slightly.
- 2D Sweep line
A new package that implements a sweep-line algorithm to compute
arrangements of curves for different families of curves, which are
not necessarily line segments (e.g., it also works for circular
arcs). The resulting output can be the list of vertex points, the
resulting subcurves or a planar map.
- Planar Maps and Arrangements
- New quicker insertion functions of Planar\_map\_2 for cases
where more precomputed information is available regarding the
position of the inserted curve in the map.
- New query function for planar maps that determines whether a
given point is within a given face of the planar map.
- New iterator over edges of planar maps in addition to the
existing iterator over halfedges.
- New copy constructor and assignment operator for arrangements.
- Polyhedral Surface
- new design introduced with release 2.3 now supported by VC7
compiler
- Extended functionality of Polyhedron\_incremental\_builder:
absolute indexing allows one to add new surfaces to existing
ones.
- 2D Triangulation
- There is a new triangulation data structure replacing the two
previous ones. This new data structure is coherent with the 3d
triangulation data structure and offer the advantages of both
previous ones. Backward compatibility is ensured and this change
is transparent for the user of triangulation classes.
- Constrained and Delaunay constrained triangulations are now able
to handle intersecting input constraints. The behavior of
constrained triangulations with repect to intersection of input
constraints can be customized using an intersection tag.
- A new class Constrained\_triangulation\_plus offers a
constrained hierarchy on top of a constrained triangulations.
This additionnal data structure describes the subdivision of the
original constraints into edges of the triangulations.
- 3D Triangulation
- Running time improved by a better and more compact management of
memory allocation
- Various improvements and small functionalities added:
- Triangulation\_3<GT,Tds>::triangle() returns a
triangle oriented towards the outside of the cell c for
facet (c,i)
- New function insert(Point, Locate\_type, Cell\_handle, int,
int) which avoids the location step.
- New function to get access to cells in conflict in a
Delaunay insertion : find\_conflicts() and
insert\_in\_hole()
- New function TDS::delete\_cells(begin, end).
- New functions : degree(v), reorient(),
remove\_decrease\_dimension(), remove\_from\_simplex().
- Changes of interface:
- vertices and cells are the same for the triangulation data
structure and the geometric triangulation
- the triangulation data structure uses Vertex\_handle (resp
Cell\_handle) instead of Vertex\* (resp Cell\*).
- incident\_cells() and incident\_vertices() are templated by
output iterators
- changes in the iterators and circulators interface:
- Iterators and circulators are convertible to handles
automatically, no need to call "->handle()" anymore.
- Vertex\_iterator split into All\_vertices\_iterator and
Finite\_vertices\_iterator (and similar for cells...).
- TDS::Edge/Facet iterators now support operator->.
- 2D Search structures
Additional range search operations taking a predicate functor have
been added
### Support Library
- Qt\_widget
- We have added a new class for visualization of 2D CGAL objects.
It is derived from Trolltech's Qt class QWidget and privdes a
used to scale and pan.
- Some demos were developed for the following packages: 2D Alpha
shapes, 2D Convex Hull, Largest empty 2D rectangle, Maximum
k-gon, Minimum ellipse, Minimum 2D quadrilateral, 2D polygon
partitioning 2D regular and constrained triangulation.
- Tutorials are available to help users get used to Qt\_widget
- Timer
Fixed Timer class (for user process time) to have no wrap-around
anymore on Posix-compliant systems.
The following functionality is no longer supported:
- Planar maps of infinite curves (the so-called planar map
bounding-box).
Bugs in the following packages have been fixed: 3D Convex hull, 2D
Polygon partition, simple polygon generator
Also attempts have been made to assure compatability with the upcoming
LEDA release that introduces the leda namespace.
### Known problems
- 2D Nef Polyhedra contains a memory leak. Memory problems are also
the likely cause of occasional run-time errors on some platforms.
- The d-dimensional convex hull computation produces run-time errors
on some platforms because of memory management bugs.
- The new Halfedge Data Structure design introduced with release 2.3
does not work on VC6. See the release notes in the manual for more
information.
- The following deficiencies relate to planar maps, planar maps of
intersecting curves (pmwx), arrangements and sweep line.
- On KCC, Borland and SunPro we guarantee neither compilation nor
correct execution for all of the packages above.
- On VC6 and VC7 we guarantee neither compilation nor correct
execution of the sweep line package.
- On CC (on Irix 6.5) the trapezoidal decomposition point location
strategy is problematic when used with planar maps, pmwx, or
arrangements (mind that this is the default for planar maps).
- On CC (on Irix 6.5) sweep line with polyline traits does not
compile (mind that the so-called leda polyline traits does
compile).
- On g++ (on Irix 6.5) the segment-circle
(Arr\_segment\_circle\_traits\_2) traits does not compile for
either of the above packages.
Release 2.3
-----------
Release date: August 2001
Version 2.3 differs from version 2.2 in the platforms that are supported
and in functionality.
Additional supported platform:
- Gnu g++ 3.0 on Solaris and Linux
The following functionality has been added:
### Kernels
- The 2D and 3D kernels now serve as models of the new kernel concept
described in the recent paper, "An Adaptable and Extensible Geometry
Kernel" by Susan Hert, Micheal Hoffmann, Lutz Kettner, Sylvain Pion,
and Michael Seel to be presented at WAE 2001 (and soon available as
a technical report). This new kernel is completely compatible with
the previous design but is more flexible in that it allows geometric
predicates as well as objects to be easily exchanged and adapted
individually to users' needs.
- A new kernel called `Simple_homogeneous` is available. It is
equivalent to `Homogeneous` but without reference-counted objects.
- A new kernel called `Filtered_kernel` is available that allows one
to build kernel traits classes that use exact and efficient
predicates.
- There are two classes, `Cartesian_converter` and
`Homogeneous_converter` that allows one to convert objects between
different Cartesian and homogeneous kernels, respectively.
- A new d-dimensional kernel, `Kernel_d` is available. It provides
diverse kernel objects, predicates and constructions in d dimensions
with two representations based on the kernel families `Cartesean_d`
and `Homogeneous_d`
### Basic Library
Almost all packages in the basic library have been adapted to the new
kernel design to realize the flexibility this design makes possible. In
several packages, this means that the traits class requirements have
changed to conform to the function objects offered in the kernels so the
kernels themselves can be used as traits classes in many instances.
- 2D Convex Hull
The traits requirements have changed slightly to bring them in line
with the CGAL kernels.
- 3D Convex Hull
- The function `convex_hull_3` now uses a new implementation of
the quickhull algorithm and no longer requires LEDA.
- A new `convex_hull_incremental_3` function based on the new
d-dimensional convex hull class is available for comparison
purposes.
- `Convex_hull_d, Delaunay_d`
Two new application classes offering the calculation of
d-dimensional convex hulls and delaunay triangulations
- Polygons and Polygon Operations
- The traits class requirements have been changed.
- The simplicity test has a completely new implementation.
- Properties like convexity, simplicity and area can now be cached
by polygons. You need to set a flag to select this behaviour.
- Planar Nef Polyhedra
A new class (`Nef_polyhedron_2`) representing planar Nef polyhedra =
rectilinearly bounded points sets that are the result of binary and
topological operations starting from halfplanes.
- A new package offering functions to partition planar polygons into
convex and y-monotone pieces is available.
- Planar Maps and Arrangements
- A new class `Planar_map_with_intersections_2<Planar_map>` for
planar maps of possibly intersecting, possibly non-x-monotone,
possibly overlapping curves (like `Arrangement_2` but without
the hierarchy tree).
- I/O utilities for planar maps and arrangements for textual and
graphical streams. (It is possible to save and later reload
built planar maps or arrangements.)
- New arrangement traits class for line segments and circular arcs
(`Arr_segment_circle_traits<NT>`).
- New faster traits for polylines specialized for using the LEDA
rational kernel (`Arr_leda_polylines_traits`). The LEDA traits
for segments was also made faster.
- A new point location strategy
(`Pm_simple_point_location<Planar_map>`).
- Halfedge Data Structure
The halfedge data structure has been completely revised. The new
design is more in line with the STL naming scheme and it provides a
safe and coherent type system throughout the whole design (no void\*
pointers anymore), which allows for better extendibility. A user can
add new incidences in the mesh easily. The new design also uses
standard allocators with a new template parameter that has a
suitable default.
The old design is still available, but its use is deprecated, see
the manual of deprecated packages for its documentation. Reported
bugs in copying the halfedge data structure (and therefore also
polyhedral surfaces) have been fixed in both designs. Copying a
list-based representation is now based on hash maps instead of
std::map and is therefore considerably faster.
- Polyhedral Surface
The polyhedral surface has been rewritten to work with the new
halfedge data structure design. The user level interface of the
`CGAL::Polyhedron_3` class is almost backwards compatible with the
previous class. The exceptions are the template parameter list,
everything that relies on the flexibility of the underlying halfedge
data structure, such as a self-written facet class, and that the
distinction between supported normals and supported planes has been
removed. Only planes are supported. See the manuals for suggestions
how to handle normals instead of planes.
More example programs are provided with polyhedral surfaces, for
example, one about Euler operator and one computing a subdivision
surface given a control mesh as input.
The old design is still available for backwards compatibility and to
support older compiler, such as MSVC++6.0. For the polyhedral
surface, old and new design cannot be used simultaneously (they have
identical include file names and class names). The include files
select automatically the old design for MSVC++6.0 and the new design
otherwise. This automatism can be overwritten by defining
appropriate macros before the include files. The old design is
selected with the `CGAL_USE_POLYHEDRON_DESIGN_ONE` macro. The new
design is selected with the `CGAL_USE_POLYHEDRON_DESIGN_TWO`
macro.
- 2D Triangulation
- The geometric traits class requirements have been changed to
conform to the new CGAL kernels. CGAL kernel classes can be used
as traits classes for all 2D triangulations except for regular
triangulations.
- Additionnal functionality:
- dual method for regular triangulations (to build a power
diagram)
- unified names and signatures for various "find\_conflicts()"
member functions in Delaunay and constrained Delaunay
triangulation.
- As an alternative to the simple insert() member function,
insertion of points in those triangulation can be performed
using the combination of find\_conflicts() and star\_hole()
which eventually allows the user to keep track of deleted
faces.
- More demos and examples
- 3D Triangulation
- Major improvements
- A new class `Triangulation_hierarchy_3` that allows a faster
point location, and thus construction of the Delaunay
triangulation
- A new method for removing a vertex from a Delaunay
triangulation that solves all degenerate cases
- Running time of the usual location and insertion methods
improved
- A bit more functionality, such as
- New geomview output
- dual methods in Delaunay triangulations to draw the Voronoi
diagram
- More demos and examples
- Changes in interface
- Traits classes requirements have been modified
- The kernel can be used directly as a traits class (except
for regular triangulation)
- insert methods in `Triangulation_data_structure` have a new
interface
- A new class (`Alpha_shapes_3`) that computes Alpha shapes of point
sets in 3D is available.
- The traits requirements for matrix search and minimum quadrilaterals
have been changed to bring them in line with the CGAL kernels.
- Point\_set\_2
- now independent of LEDA; based on the CGAL Delaunay
triangulation
- traits class requirements adapted to new kernel concept.
- function template versions of the provided query operations are
available
### Support Library
- Number types:
- `Lazy_exact_nt<NT>` is a new number type wrapper to speed up
exact number types.
- `MP_Float` is a new multiprecision floating point number type.
It can do exact additions, subtractions and multiplications over
floating point values.
- `In_place_list` has a new third template parameter (with a suitable
default) for an STL-compliant allocator.
- `Unique_hash_map` is a new support class.
- `Union_find` is a new support class.
- `Geomview_stream` :
- Geomview version 1.8.1 is now required.
- no need to have a `~/.geomview` file anymore.
- new output operators for triangulations.
- new output operators for `Ray_2`, `Line_2`, `Ray_3`, `Line_3`,
`Sphere_3`.
- various new manipulators.
- Window stream In cooperation with Algorithmic Solutions, GmBH
(distributors of the LEDA library), we can now offer a visualization
package downloadable in binary form that supports visualization on a
ported version of the LEDA window lib.
Release 2.2
-----------
Release date: October 2000
Version 2.2 differs from version 2.1 in the platforms that are supported
and in functionality.
Additional supported platforms:
- the KAI compiler (4.0) on Solaris 5.8
- Borland C++ (5.5)
The following functionality has been added:
- There is a new, non-reference-counted kernel, Simple\_cartesian.
Because reference counting is not used, and thus coordinates are
stored within a class, debugging is easier using this kernel. This
kernel can also be faster in some cases than the reference-counted
Cartesian kernel.
- New optimisation algorithms
- Min\_annulus\_d - Algorithm for computing the smallest enclosing
annulus of points in arbitrary dimension
- Polytope\_distance\_d - Algorithm for computing the (squared)
distance between two convex polytopes in arbitrary dimension
- Width\_3 - Algorithm for computing the (squared) width of points
sets in three dimensions
- 2D Triangulations
- There are now two triangulation data structures available in
CGAL. The new one uses a list to store the faces and allows one
to represent two-dimensional triangulations embedded in three
spaces as well as planar triangulations.
- The triangulation hierarchy which allows fast location query is
now available.
- Inifinite objects can now be included in planar maps.
- Removal as well as insertions of vertices for 3D Delaunay
triangulations is now possible.
- A generator for \`\`random'' simple polygons is now available.
- In directory demo/Robustness, programs that demonstrate typical
robustness problems in geometric computing are presented along with
the solutions to these problems that CGAL provides.
The following functionality has been removed:
- The binary operations on polygons (union, intersection ...) have
been removed. Those operations were not documented in the previous
release (2.1). Arrangements can often be used as a substitute.
Release 2.1
-----------
Release date: January 2000
Version 2.1 differs from version 2.0 in the platforms that are supported
and in functionality.
Supported platforms:
- the newest gnu compiler (2.95.2) on Sun, SGI, Linux and Windows.
- the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler, version 6.
- the mips CC compiler version 7.3 under Irix.
Support for the old g++ compiler (2.8) and for mips CC 7.2 has been
dropped.
The following functionality has been added:
- Alpha shapes and weighted alpha shapes in 2D. Alpha shapes are a
generalization of the convex hull of a point set.
- Arrangements in 2D. Arrangements are related to and based on planar
maps. The major difference between the two is that curves are
allowed to intersect in the case of arrangements.
- Extensions to triangulations in 2D. Constrained triangulations are
now dynamic: they support insertions of new constraint as well as
removal of existing constraints. There are also constrained Delaunay
triangulations.
- Triangulations in 3D were added, both Delaunay triangulations and
regular triangulations.
- Min\_quadrilateral optimisations have been added. These are
algorithms to compute the minimum enclosing rectangle/parallelogram
(arbitrary orientation) and the minimum enclosing strip of a convex
point set.
- 2d Point\_set is a package for 2d range search operations, Delaunay
triangulation, nearest neighbor queries. This package works only if
LEDA is installed.
- Support for GeoWin visualization library. This also depends on LEDA.
- Support for using the CLN number type together with CGAL.
Release 2.0
-----------
Release date: June 1999
The main difference from release 1.2 is the introduction of namespaces
-- namespace `std` for code from the standard library and namespace
`CGAL` for the CGAL library.
Release 1.2
-----------
Release date: January 1999
Additions to release 1.1 include:
- topological map
- planar map overlay
- regular and constrained triangulations
Release 1.1
-----------
Release date: July 1998
Additions to release 1.0 include:
- 3D intersections
- kD points
- 3D convex hull
- kD smallest enclosing sphere
Release 1.0
-----------
Release date: April 1998
Additions to release 0.9 include:
- Polyhedral surfaces
- Halfedge Data Structure
- Planar maps
Release 0.9
-----------
Release date: June 1997
Initial (beta) release of the CGAL library.
