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% The CGAL Developers' Manual
% Chapter: Introduction
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% file : intro.tex
% authors: Susan Hert <hert@mpi-sb.mpg.de> &
% Stefan Schirra <stschirr@mpi-sb.mpg.de>
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\chapter{Introduction\label{chap:intro}}
\ccChapterRelease{Chapter Version: 1.0}
\ccChapterAuthor{Susan Hert\\
Menelaos Karavelas ({\tt mkaravel@tem.uoc.gr})\\
Stefan Schirra
}
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\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=240pt]{Developers_manual/fig/cgal}
\end{center}
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<CENTER>
<IMG BORDER=0 SRC="fig/cgal_small.gif"
ALIGN=middle ALT="Computational Geometry Algorithms Library"><BR>
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\centerline{{\sc Computational Geometry Algorithms Library}}
\begin{quote}
{\em
The goal of the \cgal\ Open Source Project is to provide easy access to efficient and reliable geometric algorithms in the form of a \CC\ library.
\cgal\ is used in various areas needing geometric computation, such
as: computer graphics, scientific visualization, computer aided design
and modeling, geographic information systems, molecular biology,
medical imaging, robotics and motion planning, mesh generation,
numerical methods...
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%The goal of \cgal\ is to make available to users in industry and academia
%the most important efficient solutions to basic geometric problems
%developed in the area of computational geometry in a \CC\ software
%library.
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\end{quote}
Work on \cgal\ has been supported in the past by {\sc esprit iv}
projects 21957 (CGAL) and 28155 (GALIA).
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\input{Developers_manual/manual_organization}
}
\input{Developers_manual/philosophy}
\input{Developers_manual/overall_design}