Category: CGAL

CGAL Point in Polyhedron Algorithm

The “point in polygon” or “point in polyhedron” is a classic computer graphics problem. The goal is to determine whether a given point is inside a polygon (in 2D) or a polyhedron (in 3D). One solution to the problem is shooting a ray originating from the said point to an arbitrary direction and determine the number …

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“Unresolved external symbol” Errors when Compiling CGAL 4.7 Under Windows with Visual Studio 2013

I spent hours trying to compile CGAL 4.7 with Visual Studio 2013. Everything compiled on the first try with Visual Studio 2010 but for some reason I was unable to get it working with VS2013. CMake would create the solution files just fine and was able to resolve everything. However, when I attempted to build …

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