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+Subject: CGAL 3.3 Released, Computational Geometry Algorithms Library
+Body: 
+
+The CGAL Open Source Project is pleased to announce the release 3.3 of 
+CGAL, the Computational Geometry Algorithms Library.  
+
+
+Besides improvements of existing packages this release offers
+the following new algorithms and data structures.
+
+
+ o Surface Mesh Simplification 
+
+  This package provides a mesh simplification framework using edge collapse
+  operations, and provides the Turk/Lindstrom simplification algorithm.
+
+
+ o Estimation of Local Differential Properties
+
+  This package allows to compute local differential quantities of a surface 
+  from a point sample.
+
+
+ o Approximation of Ridges and Umbilics on Triangulated Surface Meshes
+
+  This package enables the approximation of differential features on
+  triangulated surface meshes. Such curvature related features are
+  lines: ridges or crests, and points: umbilics.
+
+
+ o Envelopes of Curves in 2D
+
+  This package contains two sets of functions that construct the lower and 
+  upper envelope diagram for a given range of bounded or unbounded curves.
+
+
+ o Envelopes of Surfaces in 3D
+
+  This package contains two sets of functions that construct the lower and 
+  upper envelope diagram for a given range of bounded or unbounded surfaces. 
+  The envelope diagram is realized as a 2D arrangement.
+
+
+ o Minkowski Sums in 2D
+
+  This package contains functions for computing planar Minkowski sums of two 
+  closed polygons,  and for a polygon and a disc (an operation also known as 
+  offsetting or dilating a polygon). 
+  The package also contains an efficient approximation algorithm for the offset 
+  computation,  which provides a guaranteed approximation bound while significantly 
+  expediting the running times w.r.t. the exact computation procedure.
+
+
+ o CGAL and the Boost Graph Library
+
+  This package provides the glue layer for several CGAL data structures such 
+  that they become models of the BGL graph concept.
+ 
+
+ o Spatial Sorting
+
+  This package allows to sort points and other objects along a Hilbert curve
+  which can improve the performance of algorithms like triangulations.
+  It is used by the constructors of the triangulation package which have
+  an iterator range of points as argument.
+
+
+ o Linear and Quadratic Programming Solver
+
+  This package contains algorithms for minimizing linear and convex quadratic 
+  functions over polyhedral domains, described by linear equations and inequalities. 
+
+
+
+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, 
+- 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), 
+- optimisation 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 must be purchased from
+GeometryFactory (www.geometryfactory.com).
+
+
+For further information and for downloading the library and its 
+documentation, please visit the CGAL web site: http://www.cgal.org/