Hello Andreas, I also really need this function in Julia, and .. I wonder if you could send me yours .. :)
Thank you, Viti. On Saturday, May 10, 2014 3:57:16 PM UTC+3, Andreas Lobinger wrote: > > Hello colleague, > > On Friday, May 9, 2014 11:13:06 PM UTC+2, Steve Kelly wrote: >> >> I am going to be developing some software for 3D printing. For path >> planning, we will need to use the clipping algorithm. >> >> Graphics.jl mentions a clip function. >> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/graphics.jl >> Cairo.jl uses the C implementation in Cairo. >> >> i'm not so sure if the call to cairo's clip - which is just a hint to the > internal polygon/tesselation units where to put paint and where not - is > the thing you need (especially as cairo is 2D only). So you probably need > to implement a 3D clipping anyway > > >> I would like to implement this algorithm natively in Julia. My question >> to the community is whether it be more appropriate to create a new package >> or optionally add the algorithm to Graphics.jl (or another package)? >> > > I think Julia woud benefit of something like a computational geometry pkg > that deal with the basic problems of point/line/polygon/meshes and > inside/outside testing, clipping, intersection. > > When i started looking at julia i was missing a inpolygon (matlab basic > command) counterpart. It wasn't there, i implemented a local julia > solution, but never found a place to contribute. > > Wishing a happy day, > Andreas >
