Re: [boost] Preview 2 of a template Geometry Library

From: Demian Nave (demian_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-26 19:30:07

Arash Partow wrote:

> Writing a geometry library is hard, look at CGAL over $1million Euros in funding, both
> commercial and academic wings and look at the monstrosity they have
> produced. If you can determine the intersection point of 2 line
> segments in under 15lines of code using CGAL I take my hat off to
> you :>

As someone who has *tried* to use CGAL to do intersections and a variety 
of other operations in under 15 lines of code, I second this statement. 
  My only advice: don't let a Boost geometry library turn into CGAL. :-)

Cheers,
Demian