CGAL – Computational Geometry Algorithms Library

Re:CGAL – Computational Geometry Algorithms Library by abetusk on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @02:06PM (#12798892)

My experience with CGAL is that it's slow, clunky and very difficult to work with. I understand that it's the 'gold standard' of libraries but for the purpose I was using it for (2d polygon boolean operations, polygon offsetting), I found ClipperLib [1] to be far superior in terms of ease of use, stability and execution speed. There's even a JavaScript port of ClipperLib [2]. I highly recommend ClipperLib to anyone that only needs simple 2d polygon manipulation.

[1] http://angusj.com/delphi/clipper.php [2] https://sourceforge.net/p/jsclipper/wiki/documentation/

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Re:CGAL – Computational Geometry Algorithms Library by geezerjay on Friday October 28, 2016 @10:19AM (#12816081)

> My experience with CGAL is that it's slow, clunky and very difficult to work with.

I can't comment on the slowness and clunkyness, but in my very limited experience with CGAL I also felt it was needlessly difficult to work with.

Perhaps investing some work in the documentation would help shed this idea.

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