From ec2e0471175631f8ca0f11b9765c47db23086883 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laurent Rineau Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:08:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Announcement for CGAL-3.6 (final release): add a paragraph about periodic triangulations and alpha shapes. --- .gitattributes | 1 + .../public_release/announcement/CGAL-3.6 | 69 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 70 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Maintenance/public_release/announcement/CGAL-3.6 diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes index 0f1a116cad4..07f211151a9 100644 --- a/.gitattributes +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -1667,6 +1667,7 @@ Maintenance/public_release/announcement/CGAL-3.4Beta -text Maintenance/public_release/announcement/CGAL-3.5 -text Maintenance/public_release/announcement/CGAL-3.5-beta1 -text Maintenance/public_release/announcement/CGAL-3.5.1 -text +Maintenance/public_release/announcement/CGAL-3.6 -text Maintenance/public_release/announcement/CGAL-3.6-beta1 -text Maintenance/release_building/BUGFIX_NUMBER -text Maintenance/release_building/MAJOR_NUMBER -text diff --git a/Maintenance/public_release/announcement/CGAL-3.6 b/Maintenance/public_release/announcement/CGAL-3.6 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..20844cda8ff --- /dev/null +++ b/Maintenance/public_release/announcement/CGAL-3.6 @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +Subject: CGAL 3.6 Released, Computational Geometry Algorithms Library +Body: + +The CGAL Open Source Project is pleased to announce the Release 3.6 +of CGAL, the Computational Geometry Algorithms Library. + + +Besides improvements and fixes to existing packages, this release offers +the following new features. + + o 3D Periodic Triangulations + + The package can now be used with the 3D Alpha Shapes package to compute + periodic alpha shapes. + + o 3D Mesh Generation + + The mesh generator has been enriched with an optimization phase to + provide 3D meshes with well shaped tetrahedra (and in particular no + slivers). + + o Algebraic Kernel (new package) + + This new package provides implementations of algorithms to determine, + compare and approximate real roots of univariate polynomials and + bivariate polynomial systems. + +See http://www.cgal.org/releases.html for a complete list of changes. + + +The CGAL project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, +easy-to-use, and efficient C++ software library of geometric data +structures and algorithms, like +- triangulations (2D constrained triangulations and Delaunay + triangulations in 2D and 3D), +- Voronoi diagrams (for 2D and 3D points, 2D additively weighted + Voronoi diagrams, and segment Voronoi diagrams), +- Boolean operations on polygons and polyhedra, +- Regularized Boolean operations on polygons with curved arcs +- arrangements of curves, +- mesh algorithms (2D Delaunay mesh generation and 3D surface mesh + generation, surface mesh subdivision and parameterization), +- alpha shapes (in 2D and 3D), +- convex hull algorithms (in 2D, 3D and dD), +- operations on polygons (straight skeleton and offset polygon), +- search structures (kd trees for nearest neighbor search, and + range and segment trees), +- interpolation (natural neighbor interpolation and placement of + streamlines), +- optimization algorithms (smallest enclosing sphere of points or + spheres, smallest enclosing ellipsoid of points, principal + component analysis), +- kinetic data structures + + + + +Some modules are distributed under the terms of the LGPL Open Source +license (GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1). +Most modules are distributed under the terms of the QPL Open Source +license (Q Public License v1.0). +If your intended usage does not meet the criteria of the +aforementioned licenses, a commercial license can be purchased from +GeometryFactory (http://www.geometryfactory.com/). + + +For further information and for downloading the library and its +documentation, please visit the CGAL web site: http://www.cgal.org/ +