Introduction to Geometric Processing with CGAL

Sometimes you have computations that depend on shapes, rather than pixels. Instead of an image as your starting point, you have points, lines, rectangles, polygons and so-on. You may need to compute some discrete summarizing property of the input or you may need to process the input into another form, such as transforming a 3D point cloud into some kind of 3D polygonal surface. This is the domain of computational geometry.

This month, Richard Thomson will give us an introduction to computational geometry in C++ with the CGAL library. The Computational Geometry Algorithm Library (CGAL) is designed to provide easy access to efficient and reliable geometric algorithms in the form of a C++ library. Computational geometry is a large topic, so we only be able to give you an introduction in the available time.

This will be an on-line event, so drinks and snacks are on you!

Watch previous topics on the Utah C++ Programmers YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC56D6OIs_IAy24ubjC2_hmQ

CGAL: https://www.cgal.org/