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\cgal\ is a {\em Computational Geometry Algorithms Library} written in \CC, 
developed by a consortium consisting of
\ccAnchor{http://www.inf.ethz.ch/}{ETH Z\"urich} (Switzerland), 
\ccAnchor{http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/}{Freie Universit{\"a}t Berlin} (Germany), 
\ccAnchor{http://www.inria.fr/Equipes/PRISME-eng.html}{{\sc Inria} 
Sophia-Antipolis} (France),
\ccAnchor{http://www.informatik.uni-halle.de/}{Martin-Luther-Universit{\"a}t 
Halle-Wittenberg} (Germany),
\ccAnchor{http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/}{Max-Planck Institut f{\"u}r Informatik},
Saarbr\"ucken (Germany),
\ccAnchor{http://info.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/}{{\sc Risc}} Linz (Austria)
\ccAnchor{http://www.math.tau.ac.il/}{Tel-Aviv University} (Israel), and
\ccAnchor{http://www.cs.uu.nl/}{Utrecht University} (The Netherlands). 
You can find more information about the project on the
\ccAnchor{http://www.cgal.org}{\cgal\ home page}
\ccTexHtml{at URL {\tt http://www.cgal.org}}{}.


Should you have any questions, comments, remarks or criticism concerning 
\cgal, please send a message to 
\ccTexHtml{{\tt contact@cgal.org}}{<A HREF="mailto:contact@cgal.org">&#60;contact@cgal.org&#62;</A>}.

\section*{Editorial Committee}

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\section*{Authors}

Lutz Kettner (ETH Z\"urich)\\
Andreas Fabri ({\sc Inria} Sophia-Antipolis).


\section*{Acknowledgement}

This work was supported
by the ESPRIT IV Long Term Research Projects No.~21957 (CGAL) 
and No.~28155 (GALIA).



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