[vtk-developers] Additions to vtkTriangle

[David Thompson]

Hi Philippe,

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

I think they sound good. Could you name the method Circumcenter() instead of TriangleCircumcenter()? It seems unnecessarily verbose to include the class name in the method name.

	David

> 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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