detecting interpenetration of 3D meshes?

[Elvis Chen]

greetings,

can anyone please give a pointer as to how to detect interpenetration of
3D meshes?  That is, given two objects in 3D speace, I want to know if
part of these two objects overlaps in 3D.  The meshes are triangulated.

thanx,

Elvis

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