CGAL 6.1 - 3D Triangulation Data Structure

Loading...
Searching...
No Matches
Modules
Reference Manual

##

Clément Jamin, Sylvain Pion, and Monique Teillaud
This package provides a data structure to store a three-dimensional triangulation that has the topology of a three-dimensional sphere. The package acts as a container for the vertices and cells of the triangulation and provides basic combinatorial operations on the triangulation.
Introduced in: CGAL 2.1
BibTeX: cgal:pt-tds3-25b
License: GPL

The triangulation data structure is able to represent a triangulation of a topological sphere \( S^d\) of \( \mathbb{R}^{d+1}\), for \( d \in \{-1,0,1,2,3\}\). (See Representation.)

The vertex class of a 3D-triangulation data structure must define a number of types and operations. The requirements that are of geometric nature are required only when the triangulation data structure is used as a layer for the geometric triangulation classes. (See Section Software Design.)

The cell class of a triangulation data structure stores four handles to its four vertices and four handles to its four neighbors. The vertices are indexed 0, 1, 2, and 3 in a consistent order. The neighbor indexed \( i\) lies opposite to vertex `i`.

In degenerate dimensions, cells are used to store faces of maximal dimension: in dimension 2, each cell represents only one facet of index 3, and 3 edges \( (0,1)\), \( (1,2)\) and \( (2,0)\); in dimension 1, each cell represents one edge \( (0,1)\). (See Section Representation.)

## Classified Reference Pages

## Concepts

- `TriangulationDataStructure_3`
- `TriangulationDataStructure_3::Cell`
- `TriangulationDataStructure_3::Cell_data`
- `TriangulationDataStructure_3::Vertex`
- `TriangulationDSCellBase_3`
- `TriangulationDSVertexBase_3`

## Classes

- `CGAL::Triangulation_data_structure_3<Vb,Cb,CT>` is a model for the concept of the 3D-triangulation data structure `TriangulationDataStructure_3`. It is templated by base classes for vertices and cells.

CGAL provides base vertex classes and base cell classes:

- `CGAL::Triangulation_ds_cell_base_3<TDS>`
- `CGAL::Triangulation_ds_vertex_base_3<TDS>`

## Helper Classes

- `CGAL::Triangulation_utils_3` defines operations on the indices of vertices and neighbors within a cell of a triangulation.

## Modules
| Concepts
| Classes
| I/O for a Triangulation_data_structure_3