diff --git a/Polygon_mesh_processing/doc/Polygon_mesh_processing/Polygon_mesh_processing.txt b/Polygon_mesh_processing/doc/Polygon_mesh_processing/Polygon_mesh_processing.txt index 5108c5fc4c4..c0481d163d7 100644 --- a/Polygon_mesh_processing/doc/Polygon_mesh_processing/Polygon_mesh_processing.txt +++ b/Polygon_mesh_processing/doc/Polygon_mesh_processing/Polygon_mesh_processing.txt @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ The visual results of aforementioned steps can be seen in \cgalFigureRef{Mech_st \subsection MeshingAPI API -Refinement and fairing functions can be applied to an arbitrary region on a mesh, using : +Refinement and fairing functions can be applied to an arbitrary region on a polygon mesh, using : - `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::refine()` : given a set of facets on a mesh, refines the region. - `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::fair()` : given a set of vertices on a mesh, fairs the region. @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ to remove those faces and to fix the connectivity of the newly cleaned up mesh. \subsubsection RemoveDegenerateExample Example -In the following example, the degenerate faces of a simple mesh containing +In the following example, the degenerate faces of a simple triangle mesh containing some are removed, the connectivity is fixed, and the number of removed faces is displayed. @@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ In the following example, the degenerate faces of a simple mesh containing ******************* \subsection PolygonSoups Polygon Soups -When the faces of a mesh are given but the connectivity is not known, +When the faces of a polygon mesh are given but the connectivity is not known, we talk of a \e polygon \e soup. Before being able to run any of this package algorithms on the so-called @@ -271,7 +271,8 @@ performs this mesh construction step. This example shows how to build a mesh from a polygon soup. The first step is to get a soup of consistently oriented faces, before reconstituting the connectivity. -In this example, some orientation tests are run on the output mesh to illustrate +In this example, some orientation tests are run on the output +polygon mesh to illustrate Section \ref PMPOrientation. \cgalExample{Polygon_mesh_processing/polygon_soup_example.cpp} @@ -281,7 +282,7 @@ Section \ref PMPOrientation. **************************************** \section PMPNormalComp Normals Computation -This package provides methods to compute normals to the polygon mesh. +This package provides methods to compute normals to a polygon mesh. The normal can be computed on a single face, or estimated at a vertex, as the average of its incident faces normals. These computations are done with : @@ -321,7 +322,7 @@ and a plane for which a translation following the normal to the plane is performed. \cgalFigureBegin{SlicerFig, slicer.png} -Slicing process. A triangle mesh (left) and the polylines +Slicing process. A triangulated surface mesh (left) and the polylines computed by the mesh slicer by intersecting the yellow plane and translations of it with the mesh (right). \cgalFigureEnd