Project Summary
The goal of the CGAL Open Source Project is to provide easy access to efficient and reliable geometric algorithms in the form of a C++ library. CGAL is used in various areas needing geometric computation, such as: computer graphics, scientific visualization, computer aided design and modeling, geographic information systems, molecular biology, medical imaging, robotics and motion planning, mesh generation, numerical methods...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 425 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in August, 1995
ending with its most recent commit about 2 months ago
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