diff --git a/Advancing_front_surface_reconstruction/doc/Advancing_front_surface_reconstruction/CGAL/Advancing_front_surface_reconstruction.h b/Advancing_front_surface_reconstruction/doc/Advancing_front_surface_reconstruction/CGAL/Advancing_front_surface_reconstruction.h
index 09b95b888fd..29302a21248 100644
--- a/Advancing_front_surface_reconstruction/doc/Advancing_front_surface_reconstruction/CGAL/Advancing_front_surface_reconstruction.h
+++ b/Advancing_front_surface_reconstruction/doc/Advancing_front_surface_reconstruction/CGAL/Advancing_front_surface_reconstruction.h
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ calls the surface reconstruction function with the default parameters.
 \param beta described in Section \ref AFSR_Selection
 
 */ 
-  void run(double k=5, double beta= 0.18);
+  void run(double k=5, double beta= 0.52);
 
 /*! 
 returns the reconstructed surface.