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- From: orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke)
- Subject: Re: Finding 3D faces from coordinates
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.140542.7251@sophia.smith.edu>
- Keywords: faces 3d algorithm
- Organization: Smith College, Northampton, MA, US
- References: <43347@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:05:42 GMT
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- In article <43347@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> cote@cs.ucsd.edu (Brad Cote) writes:
- >Hello all,
- >
- > I have a set of three dimensional coordinates from which I need to
- >construct a 3 dimensional solid. Some of the coordinates are points
- >which are interior to the solid.
-
- Is the solid convex, i.e., without dents? If so, then what
- you seek is the convex hull of your points. If not, then you have a
- much harder problem, but there are methods in the literature nevertheless.
-