Re: [Boost-users] [geometry] periodic boundary conditions

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [geometry] periodic boundary conditions
From: Barend Gehrels (barend_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-23 13:32:36

hi Alfredo,

>  I am starting to investigate the boost.geometry library. One of the
> applications I have already for it is in the context of particle
> simulations.
>   

Thanks for your interest.

> I still have not much idea of the architecture of the library but it
> seem very powerful. So for example I was wondering if geometry has
> facilities for distances and points living in 3D periodic boundary
> conditions. Topologically it is a torus but with euclidean distance.
>   
Boost.Geometry supports euclidean distances between points or 
points-lines in 3D. I've no experience in particle simulations, so don't 
know what to expect, but I'm curious to your findings.

> If somebody could point where to look I will appreciate it.
>   

There are several places to look in more detail.

The architecture of the library is described in two papers written for 
BoostCon'09 and BoostCon'10, they can be downloaded here:
http://trac.osgeo.org/ggl/wiki/BoostCon

On that website there are also some other links a.o. to the Doxygen 
documentation.

Regards, Barend