CGAL 5.1.2 - The Heat Method
Heat_method_3/heat_method.cpp
#include <CGAL/Simple_cartesian.h>
#include <CGAL/Surface_mesh.h>
#include <CGAL/Heat_method_3/Surface_mesh_geodesic_distances_3.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
typedef Kernel::Point_3 Point_3;
typedef CGAL::Surface_mesh<Point_3> Triangle_mesh;
typedef boost::graph_traits<Triangle_mesh>::vertex_descriptor vertex_descriptor;
typedef Triangle_mesh::Property_map<vertex_descriptor,double> Vertex_distance_map;
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
Triangle_mesh tm;
const char* filename = (argc > 1) ? argv[1] : "./data/elephant.off";
std::ifstream input(filename);
if (!input || !(input >> tm) || tm.is_empty()) {
std::cerr << "Not a valid off file." << std::endl;
return 1;
}
//property map for the distance values to the source set
Vertex_distance_map vertex_distance = tm.add_property_map<vertex_descriptor, double>("v:distance", 0).first;
vertex_descriptor source = *(vertices(tm).first);
CGAL::Heat_method_3::estimate_geodesic_distances(tm, vertex_distance, source) ;
std::cout << "Source vertex " << source << " at: " << tm.point(source) << std::endl;
for(vertex_descriptor vd : vertices(tm)){
std::cout << vd << " ("<< tm.point(vd) << ")"
<< " is at distance " << get(vertex_distance, vd) << std::endl;
}
return 0;
}