diff --git a/Surface_mesh_approximation/examples/Surface_mesh_approximation/vsa_approximation_2_example.cpp b/Surface_mesh_approximation/examples/Surface_mesh_approximation/vsa_approximation_2_example.cpp
index cb7d9c0c4b9..c471cd9df21 100644
--- a/Surface_mesh_approximation/examples/Surface_mesh_approximation/vsa_approximation_2_example.cpp
+++ b/Surface_mesh_approximation/examples/Surface_mesh_approximation/vsa_approximation_2_example.cpp
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ typedef boost::associative_property_map<Facet_index_map> Facet_proxy_pmap;
 
 int main()
 {
-  // create polyhedral surface and read input surface triangle mesh 
+  // read input surface triangle mesh 
   Polyhedron input;
   std::ifstream file("data/mask.off");
   if (!file || !(file >> input) || input.empty()) {
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ int main()
     fidx_map[f] = 0;
   Facet_proxy_pmap fpxmap(fidx_map);
 
-  // output plane proxies;
+  // output planar proxies
   std::vector<Plane_proxy> proxies;
 
   // free function interface with named parameters
diff --git a/Surface_mesh_approximation/examples/Surface_mesh_approximation/vsa_approximation_example.cpp b/Surface_mesh_approximation/examples/Surface_mesh_approximation/vsa_approximation_example.cpp
index 57bf476923e..aff1c81d3d2 100644
--- a/Surface_mesh_approximation/examples/Surface_mesh_approximation/vsa_approximation_example.cpp
+++ b/Surface_mesh_approximation/examples/Surface_mesh_approximation/vsa_approximation_example.cpp
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ typedef CGAL::Polyhedron_3<Kernel> Polyhedron;
 
 int main()
 {
-  // create polyhedral surface and read input surface triangle mesh 
+  // read input surface triangle mesh 
   Polyhedron input;
   std::ifstream file("data/mask.off");
   if (!file || !(file >> input) || input.empty()) {
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ int main()
     return EXIT_FAILURE;
   }
 
-  // output polyhedral surface and indexed triangle mesh
+  // output polyhedral surface and indexed face set
   Polyhedron output;
   std::vector<Kernel::Point_3> points;
   std::vector<std::vector<std::size_t> > triangles; // triplets of indices
@@ -31,13 +31,13 @@ int main()
     max_nb_proxies(200). // seeding with maximum number of proxies
     nb_of_iterations(30). // number of clustering iterations after seeding
     // output to polyhedron
-    output_mesh(&output)); // valid only if the indexed triangles construct a 2-manifold and oriented surface
+    output_mesh(&output)); // valid when the indexed face set represents a 2-manifold, oriented surface
 
   std::cout << "#anchor points: " << points.size() << std::endl;
   std::cout << "#triangles: " << triangles.size() << std::endl;
 
   if (valid_polyhedron)
-    std::cout << "oriented 2-manifold output." << std::endl;
+    std::cout << "oriented, 2-manifold output." << std::endl;
 
   return EXIT_SUCCESS;
 }
diff --git a/Surface_mesh_approximation/examples/Surface_mesh_approximation/vsa_class_interface_example.cpp b/Surface_mesh_approximation/examples/Surface_mesh_approximation/vsa_class_interface_example.cpp
index e1fe1be8fa7..86c257f2b71 100644
--- a/Surface_mesh_approximation/examples/Surface_mesh_approximation/vsa_class_interface_example.cpp
+++ b/Surface_mesh_approximation/examples/Surface_mesh_approximation/vsa_class_interface_example.cpp
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ typedef Mesh_approximation::Proxy_fitting Proxy_fitting;
 
 int main()
 {
-  // create polyhedral surface and read input mesh
+  // read input surface triangle mesh
   Polyhedron input;
   std::ifstream file("data/mask.off");
   if (!file || !(file >> input) || input.empty()) {
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ int main()
     return EXIT_FAILURE;
   }
 
-  // create VSA approximation algorithm instance
+  // create VSA algorithm instance
   Mesh_approximation approx(input,
     get(boost::vertex_point, const_cast<Polyhedron &>(input)));
 
diff --git a/Surface_mesh_approximation/examples/Surface_mesh_approximation/vsa_segmentation_example.cpp b/Surface_mesh_approximation/examples/Surface_mesh_approximation/vsa_segmentation_example.cpp
index 66b5ee41d96..fb75a39228e 100644
--- a/Surface_mesh_approximation/examples/Surface_mesh_approximation/vsa_segmentation_example.cpp
+++ b/Surface_mesh_approximation/examples/Surface_mesh_approximation/vsa_segmentation_example.cpp
@@ -24,16 +24,19 @@ int main()
   Facet_index_map fidx_map;
   BOOST_FOREACH(face_descriptor f, faces(input))
     fidx_map[f] = 0;
+
   // facet proxy index property map
   Facet_proxy_pmap fpxmap(fidx_map);
 
   // free function interface with named parameters
   CGAL::VSA::mesh_segmentation(input,
-    fpxmap, // output indexed face set
+    fpxmap, // output segmentation
     CGAL::VSA::parameters::seeding_method(CGAL::VSA::Hierarchical). // hierarchical seeding
-    max_nb_proxies(200). // both maximum number of proxies stop criterion,
-    min_error_drop(0.05). // and minimum error drop stop criterion are specified
+    max_nb_proxies(200). // first stop criterion
+    min_error_drop(0.05). // second stop criterion
     nb_of_iterations(30)); // number of iterations after seeding
 
+  // TODO: retrieve segments of the segmentation
+
   return EXIT_SUCCESS;
 }
diff --git a/Surface_mesh_approximation/examples/Surface_mesh_approximation/vsa_simple_approximation_example.cpp b/Surface_mesh_approximation/examples/Surface_mesh_approximation/vsa_simple_approximation_example.cpp
index c095f1492f7..71e5884283d 100644
--- a/Surface_mesh_approximation/examples/Surface_mesh_approximation/vsa_simple_approximation_example.cpp
+++ b/Surface_mesh_approximation/examples/Surface_mesh_approximation/vsa_simple_approximation_example.cpp
@@ -10,12 +10,11 @@ typedef CGAL::Polyhedron_3<Kernel> Polyhedron;
 
 int main()
 {
-  // create polyhedral surface and read input surface triangle mesh 
+  // read input surface triangle mesh 
   Polyhedron input;
   std::ifstream file("data/mask.off");
   file >> input;
 
-
   // The output will be an indexed triangle mesh
   std::vector<Kernel::Point_3> points;
   std::vector<std::vector<std::size_t> > triangles;