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Applications of the Generic Programming Paradigm in the Design of CGAL

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We report on the use of the generic programming paradigm in the computational geometry algorithms library CGAL. The parameterization of the geometric algorithms in CGAL enhances flexibility and adaptability and opens an easy way for abolishing precision and robustness problems by exact but nevertheless efficient computation. Furthermore we discuss circulators, which are an extension of the iterator concept to circular structures. Such structures arise frequently in geometric computing.

This work is partially supported by the ESPRIT IV LTR Projects No. 21957 (CGAL) and 28155 (GALIA), and by the Swiss Federal Office for Education and Science (CGAL and GALIA).

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  1. INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France

    Hervé Brönnimann

  2. ETH Zürich, Switzerland

    Lutz Kettner

  3. Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Stefan Schirra

  4. Dept. Computing Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

    Remco Veltkamp

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  1. Information Systems Institute, Distributed Systems Group, Technical University of Vienna, Argentinierstr. 8/184-1, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Mehdi Jazayeri

  2. Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik, Universität Tübingen, Sand 13, 72076, Tübingen, Germany

    Rüdiger G. K. Loos

  3. Computer Science Department, Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180-3590, USA

    David R. Musser

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Brönnimann, H., Kettner, L., Schirra, S., Veltkamp, R. (2000). Applications of the Generic Programming Paradigm in the Design of CGAL. In: Jazayeri, M., Loos, R.G.K., Musser, D.R. (eds) Generic Programming. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1766. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39953-4_16

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