Convex Hull 3D
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- Subject: [mg65430] Convex Hull 3D
- From: Virgil Stokes <virgil.stokes at it.uu.se>
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:09:39 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Today I installed Mathematica 5.2 and although there are many enhancements I was disappointed that it still does not have a convex hull function for 3 dimensional objects. In earlier contacts with Wolfram Research (several years ago), I was given the impression that such a function would be part of the next release; but, this has not happened. Before sending this email, I checked "Wolfram Research Forums", including "Documentation Center", "Mathematica Information Center", and "MathGroup" which were not very useful on finding a Mathematica implementation for finding the convex hull of 3D objects. However, I did do a search through the MathGroup archives and found that there was a discussion on this topic, e.g. "[mg44708] Follow up: 3D Convex Hull" , (2003-11-21) contained a link --- but link didn't work. I finally did find a site that had an experimental Mathematical implementation for Mathematica 3.0 and tried to get this running in Mathematica 5.2; but, was unsuccessful. I would appreciate greatly Mathematica code for finding the convex hull of 3D objects. --Thanks, V. Stokes