The CGAL Reference Manual Part 1: Kernel
Table of Contents

1. Title Page
2. Table of Contents
3. Preface
4. Introduction
5. Preliminaries
   • Coordinates and number types
   • Cartesian and homogeneous coordinates
   • Representation classes
   • Naming conventions
   • Order of header file inclusion
   • Member functions common to all CGAL classes
   • Checks, how to turn them on and off
6. 2D Point, Vector and Direction
   • Class declaration of CGAL_Point_2<R>
   • Class declaration of CGAL_Vector_2<R>
   • Class declaration of CGAL_Direction_2<R>
   • Conversion between Points and Vectors
   • Implementation
7. 2D Line, Ray and Segment
   • Class declaration of CGAL_Line_2<R>
   • Class declaration of CGAL_Ray_2<R>
   • Class declaration of CGAL_Segment_2<R>
8. 3D Point, Vector and Direction
   • Class declaration of CGAL_Point_3<R>
   • Class declaration of CGAL_Vector_3<R>
   • Class declaration of CGAL_Direction_3<R>
   • Conversion between Points and Vectors
9. 3D Line, Ray and Segment
   • Class declaration of CGAL_Line_3<R>
   • Class declaration of CGAL_Ray_3<R>
   • Class declaration of CGAL_Segment_3<R>
10. 3D Plane
    • Class declaration of CGAL_Plane_3<R>
11. 2D and 3D Simplices
    • Class declaration of CGAL_Triangle_2<R>
    • Class declaration of CGAL_Triangle_3<R>
    • Class declaration of CGAL_Tetrahedron_3<R>
12. Iso-oriented Objects
    • Class declaration of CGAL_Iso_rectangle_2<R>
    • Class declaration of CGAL_Bbox_2
    • Class declaration of CGAL_Bbox_3
13. Curved Objects
    • Class declaration of CGAL_Circle_2<R>
14. Generic Object
    • Class declaration of CGAL_Object
15. Geometric Predicates
    • Order types
    • Relative Position
    • The Incircle Test
    • Comparison Results
    • Comparison of Coordinates of Points
16. Intersections
    • Checking
    • Computing the intersection region
17. Squared Distances
    • Distance Comparisons
18. Transformations
    • Class declaration of CGAL_Aff_transformation_2<R>
    • Class declaration of CGAL_Aff_transformation_3<R>
19. Bibliography
20. Index