The dD Kernel: an Overview

This chapter presents an overview of the d-dimensional kernel of CGAL. As for this release, this part is very limited. There is only a d-dimensional point class with a minimal interface sufficient for using d-dimensional points in the computation of minimum enclosing spheres.

The point class is templated by the representation class R. This representation class is currently either CGAL_Cartesian<FT> or CGAL_Homogeneous<RT> for a so-called field type FT, and ring type RT, see Chapter . Their interface is described in Chapter .