Geometry Boost List: [ggl] convex_hull and Geometry Concept

Subject: [ggl] convex_hull and Geometry Concept
From: Barend Gehrels (barend)
Date: 2011-08-20 14:47:01

Hi Michael,

On 19-8-2011 4:15, Michael Caisse wrote:
>
> The documentation 
> <http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/libs/geometry/doc/html/geometry/reference/algorithms/convex_hull.html> 
> for the convex_hull algorithm identifies that the geometry must 
> fulfill "a Geometry Concept".
>
> It appears that convex_hull doesn't like Box Concept (which I assume 
> is a Geometry Concept). Granted, the convex_hull of a box type isn't 
> very interesting; however, generic programming requires a lot of 
> uninteresting things  (o;
>
> I might be missing something with the term "Geometry Concept". The 
> follow little program demonstrates the problem.

Yes, you are right. It will be added. Thanks for the message.
For a "point" we probably get an even more uninteresting and invalid hull...

Regards, Barend