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From: Fernando Cacciola (fernando.cacciola_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-27 09:11:58


Demian Nave wrote:
> 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. :-)
>
I happen to be one of the CGAL developers, so, given this (implicit)
intersection example, how *exactly* would you prefer it to be like? Maybe
you are just not using the library correctly? If not, how would you simplify
it?

P.S: We (the CGAL developers) are well aware of a couple of pending
improvements to ease the user experience, but I get the feeling that some
users just don't understand the inherent complexity that comes from our
fundamental goal of robustness.

Best

Fernando Cacciola
GeometryFactory


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