[vtk-developers] Additions to vtkTriangle

[Philippe Pébay]

Thanks Will.

If nobody objects, I propose to implement these methods later this week.

P

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Will Schroeder <will.schroeder at kitware.com
> wrote:

> Sounds useful to me.
> W
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Philippe Pébay <
> philippe.pebay at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I would like to add the following functionality to vtkTriangle:
>> 1. A TriangleCircumcenter(), which would compute only the coordinates of
>> the circumcenter to the triangle. With respect to the existing
>> TriangleCircumcircle() method it would be optimized by using an explicit
>> formula and not computing the circumradius.
>> 2. A FindOppositePoint() method to retrieve the point opposite to a given
>> edge in the triangle. This is nice convenience to have when repeatedly
>> traversing across triangles via edge-vertex relationships.
>>
>> However I would not rather touch the triangle API unless there is
>> consensus about it.
>>
>> Thanks
>> P
>>
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Philippe Pébay, PhD
Director of Visualization and High Performance Computing /
Directeur de la Visualisation et du Calcul Haute Performance
Kitware SAS
26 rue Louis Guérin, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
+33 (0) 6.83.61.55.70 / 4.37.45.04.15
http://www.kitware.fr <http://www.kitware.fr/>
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