Projects Using CGAL

This page gathers links to external projects using CGAL. If you are aware of such other projects, we would appreciate if you could send us the corresponding information (name, URL, authors, company/university, category, used CGAL packages).

GeometryFactory also maintains an (incomplete) list of commercial customers of CGAL.

The list of projects using CGAL is ordered along the following categories (in alphabetical order)

• Art
• Architecture, Buildings Modeling, Urban Modeling
• Astronomy
• Computational Geometry and Geometric Computing
• Computer Graphics
• Computational Topology and Shape Matching
• Computer Vision, Image Processing, Photogrammetry
• Games, Virtual Worlds
• Geographic Information Systems
• Geology and Geophysics
• Geometry Processing
• Mathematics
• Medical Modeling and Biophysics
• Mesh Generation and Surface Reconstruction
• 2D and 3D Modelers
• Molecular Modeling
• Motion Planning
• Optimization
• Particle Physics, Materials, Nanostructures, Microstructures, Fluid Dynamics
• Peer-to-Peer Virtual Environment
• Sensor Networks

Let us also mention Interfaces of CGAL in other languages and platforms and CGAL download statistics.

---

Art

• Computers Creating Abstract Art by Artificial Intelligence - ArtByAI
  Jeb Gaither
  ArtByAI, Carmel, Indiana, USA.
  Used CGAL packages: 2D Arrangements.
  
  

Architecture, Buildings Modeling, Urban Modeling

• Geosimulation tool applied to urban data for a gentrification application
  K. Hins Mallet and Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi.
  Département des sciences géomatiques, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
  Used CGAL packages:Voronoi diagrams of polygons.
  
  
• Three-dimensional Generalization of Buildings Based on Scale-Spaces
  Helmut Mayer
  Institute of Photogrammetry and Cartography
  University of the Federal Armed Forces, Munich, Germany.
  
  

Astronomy

• MOCMC: Method of Characteristics Moment Closure, a Numerical Method for Covariant Radiation Magnetohydrodynamics
  Benjamin R. Ryan and Joshua C. Dolence
  Los Alamos National Laboratory.
  Used CGAL packages: Convex hulls.
  
  
• Computing the adhesion model using C++ and CGAL
  Johan Hidding
  Kapteyn Astronomical Institute
  Used CGAL packages: 3D regular triangulations.
  
  
• Structures in the Local Universe: an adhesive approach
  Johan Hidding, Rien van de Weijgaert, Francisco Kitaura, and Gert Vegter
  Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, and Leibniz-Institure for Astrophysics Potsdam.
  Used CGAL packages: 3D regular triangulations.
  
  
• Causal Dynamical Triangulations
  Adam Getchell
  UC Davis, USA.
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Periodic Delaunay triangulations.
  
  
• DisPerSE, Discrete Persistent Structures Extractor
  Thierry Sousbie
  Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France.
  Used CGAL packages: 2D and 3D Delaunay triangulations.
  
  
• Alpha, Betti and the Megaparsec Universe: on the Homology and Topology of the Cosmic Web
  Rien van de Weygaert, Gert Vegter, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Bernard J.T. Jones, Pratyush Pranav, Changbom Park, Wojciech A. Hellwing, Bob Eldering, Nico Kruithof, E.G.P. (Patrick) Bos, Johan Hidding, Job Feldbrugge, Eline ten Have, Matti van Engelen, Manuel Caroli, and Monique Teillaud
  Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, and Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, The Netherlands,
  IST Austria,
  School of Physics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study,
  Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modeling, University of Warsaw, Poland,
  INRIA Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée, France.
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Periodic Delaunay triangulations and alpha shapes.
  
  
• The persistent cosmic web and its filamentary structure: I - Theory and implementation and II - Illustrations
  (see also: I and II)
  Thierry Sousbie, Christophe Pichon, Hajime Kawahara.
  Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Japan,
  Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris and UPMC, France,
  Oxford Astrophysics, Department of Physics, UK,
  Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan.
  Used CGAL packages: 3D periodic Delaunay triangulations.
  
  
• A walk through the Universe
  Miguel Aragon
  Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, USA.
  
  
• The Spine of the Cosmic Web
  Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo, Erwin Platen, Rien van de Weijgaert, and Alexander S. Szalay.
  The Johns Hopkins University, USA, and Kapteyn Institute Groningen, The Netherlands.
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Delaunay triangulations.
  
  
• Geometry of the Cosmic Web: Minkowski Functionals from the Delaunay Tessellation
  Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo, Sergei F. Shandarin, and Alexander S. Szalay.
  The Johns Hopkins University and The University of Kansas, USA.
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Delaunay triangulations.
  
  
• The Delaunay Tessellation Field Estimator code
  Marius Cautun and Rien van de Weijgaert.
  Kapteyn Institute Groningen, The Netherlands.
  Used CGAL packages: 2D and 3D Delaunay triangulations.
  
  

Computational Geometry and Geometric Computing

• Harmonic Triangulations, ACM Transactions on Graphics, 38(4), 2019
  Marc Alexa
  TU Berlin, Germany
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Triangulations.
  
  
• High-Performance Computation of Distributed-Memory Parallel 3D Voronoi and Delaunay Tessellation
  Tom Peterka, Dmitriy Morozov, and Carolyn Phillips
  Argonne National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Triangulations and 3D Periodic Triangulations.
  
  
• Recovering structure from r-sampled objects.
  O. Aichholzer, F. Aurenhammer, B. Kornberger, S. Plantinga, G. Rote, A. Sturm, and G. Vegter
  Graz University of Technology, Austria, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
  
  
• Approximating boundary-triangulated objects with balls.
  O. Aichholzer, F. Aurenhammer, T. Hackl, B. Kornberger, M. Peternell, and H. Pottmann
  Industrial Geometry FWF Project, Austria.
  
  
• Delaunay Triangulation Programs on Surface Data
  Sunghee Choi and Nina Amenta
  Department of Computer Science
  The University of Texas at Austin, USA.
  
  
• Almost-Delaunay Simplicies
  Deepak Bandyopadhyay and Jack Snoeyink
  Department of Computer Science
  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.
  
  
• DEpthLAUNAY
  Manuel Abellanas and Alfredo de las Vegas
  Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.
  
  
• T2 in CGAL and T2Viewer
  Alessandra G. de Oliveira, Fabio P. Selmi-Dei and Pedro J. de Rezende
  Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, Brazil.
  
  
• 3D Intersection Code
  Steven Robbins
  McGill University, Canada.
  Used CGAL packages: Kernel.
  
  

Computer Graphics

• Surflab
  Jorg Peters et al.
  Dept of CISE, University of Florida
  Used CGAL packages: Polyhedron, Half-edge data structure
  
  
• Silhouette-Aware Warping for Image-Based Rendering
  Gaurav Chaurasia, Olga Sorkine and George Drettakis
  Reves project-team
  INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée
  Used CGAL packages: 2D conforming triangulations and meshes.
  
  

Computational Topology and Shape Matching

• Computing Geometrical Measures of Topological Holes
  Jude T. Anderson, David M. Williams, and Andrew Corrigan
  Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, and Laboratories for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics, Naval Research Laborator, USA.
  Used CGAL package: 3D Triangulations.
  
  
• GUDHI - Geometry Understanding in Higher Dimensions
  The GUDHI Project
  Inria Sophia Antipolis and Saclay
  Used CGAL packages: dD Triangulations, dD Spatial Searching, dD Geometry Kernel.
  
  
• Mesecina - computational geometry you can see (The Scale Axis Transform)
  presented at SoCG'07
  Bálint Miklós, Joachim Giesen, and Mark Pauly
  Applied Geometry Group, ETH Zurich
  
  
• SHAME - Shape Matching Environment
  Mark Overmars and Remco Veltkamp
  Utrecht University
  
  
• Medial Axis Computation for Planar Free-Form Shapes
  O. Aichholzer, W. Aigner, F. Aurenhammer, T. Hackl, B. Jüttler and M. Rabl, Computer-Aided Design, 41(5):339-349, 2009.
  Industrial Geometry FWF Project, Austria.
  Used CGAL packages: 2D Circular Kernel
  
  
• Topological signatures of point patterns
  Vanessa Robins and Klaus Mecke
  Department of Applied Mathematics, the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
  Used CGAL packages: Delaunay Triangulations and Alpha shapes.
  
  
• Computing a Canonical Polygonal Schema of an Orientable Triangulated Surface
  F. Lazarus, M. Pocchiola, G. Vegter and A. Verroust
  CNRS and University of Poitiers, France; ENS Paris, France; University of Groningen, The Netherlands; INRIA Paris - Rocquencourt, France.
  
  

Computer Vision, Image Processing, Photogrammetry

• Multi-View Stereo Software
  Jean-Paul Chieze
  INRIA Paris - Rocquencourt
  Used CGAL packages 3D Triangulations
  
  
• Image-Based Modeling for Object Reconstruction : Close-Range Photogrammetry
  Ida Jazayeri, Simon Cronk, Clive Fraser
  (Department of Geomatics, School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia)
  Used CGAL packages: Point Set Processing, Surface Reconstruction from Point Sets
  
  
• The Gyroviz project
  Automatic modeling of 3D physical scenes from located frames. And in particular :
  Surface Reconstruction from Multi-View Stereo
  High resolution surface reconstruction from overlaping multiple views (Accompanying video)
  Nader Salman and Mariette Yvinec
  INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, France
  Used CGAL packages: 2D and 3D Delaunay triangulations, 2D Constrained Delaunay triangulations, AABB Tree, Surface Mesher, Point Set Processing.
  
  
• Coordinates for Instant Image Cloning
  Zeev Farbman, Gil Hoffer, Yaron Lipman, Daniel Cohen-Or, and Dani Lischinski
  The Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, and Princeton University
  Used CGAL packages: 2D Mesh Generation
  
  
• Shape reconstruction from images
  Jean-Philippe Pons et al
  CERTIS, École des Ponts
  Spatio-temporal shape from silhouette
  Efficient multi-view reconstruction of large-scale scenes
  Topology-adaptive meshes
  Meshing of multi-label datasets
  Used CGAL packages: 3D and dD Delaunay triangulations, 3D Surface Mesh Generation
  
  

Games, Virtual Worlds

• Hybrid Earth, Mixed Reality at Planet Scale
  Joaquín Keller et al.
  Orange Labs, France.
  Used CGAL packages: 2D Delaunay triangulations
  
  
• X-Plane Sceneray Creation and Editing tools
  Used CGAL packages: Polygons, Arrangements, Delaunay triangulations
  
  
• The FlightGear Scenery Designer
  
  

Geology and Geophysics

• Describing coupled hydro-mechanical effects of earthworm burrow coatings on soil shrinkage, Geoderma, Volume 435, July 2023, 11649
  Luis Alfredo Pires Barnosa and Horst H. Gerke
  Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Triangulations
  
  
• H2OLAB - software platform for numerical models in hydrogeology
  The SAGE project
  IRISA, INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique, France (and partners).
  Used CGAL packages: Polyhedron
  
  
• Efficient flow and transport simulations in reconstructed 3D pore geometries,, Advances in Water Resources, 33(12), 1508-1516
  Y Zaretskiy, S Geiger, KS Sorbie, and M Foerster
  CGAL is used to convert CT measurements of porous rocks into finite element meshes which then is used to tackle the flow problems at the pore-scale.
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Mesh Generation
  
  
• Geometry and equilibria of pebbles, Mathematical Geosciences, Volume 44, Number 1, 71-89
  Gabor Domokos, Andras A. Sipos, and Timea Szabo
  Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)
  CGAL is used to investigate the equilibrium positions of pebbles and the possible connections between the geometrical and mechanical properties of convex bodies.
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Convex Hulls, 3D Polyhedral Surfaces, 2D Polygons, 3D Triangulations
  
  
• AREM (Autonomous Robot for Environmental Monitoring) Underwater Surface Reconstruction :
  Surface reconstruction applied to point clouds obtained through a computer vision pipeline on underwater imagery.
  Ricard Campos, Rafael Garcia: VICOROB (Computer Vision and Robotics Group), University of Girona, Spain.
  Mariette Yvinec, Pierre Alliez : Geometrica, INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, France.
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Surface Mesher, AABB Tree, Point Set Processing.
  
  

Geographic Information Systems

• CartoCrow - A framework for cartographic visualization algorithms
  ALGO cluster
  Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
  Used CGAL packages: 2D kernel, 2D arrangements, 2D polyline simplification, 2D regularized Boolean set-operations, 2D segment Delaunay graphs
  
  
• MoveTK: the movement toolkit
  ALGO cluster
  Coordinated Schematization for Visualizing Mobility Patterns on Networks
  Bram Custers, Wouter Meulemans, Bettina Speckmann, and Kevin Verbeek
  Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
  Used CGAL packages: Bounding Volumes
  
  
• Gridmap
  ALGO cluster
  A Simple Pipeline for Coherent Grid Maps
  Wouter Meulemans, Max Sondag, and Bettina Speckmann
  Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
  
  
• Delaunay Intersect Tool
  Matthew Denno
  
  
• GPlates - software for the interactive visualisation of plate-tectonics.
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Surface Interpolation, 2D Mesh Generator
  
  
• SFCGAL - a C++ wrapper library around CGAL with the aim of supporting ISO 19107:2013 and OGC Simple Features Access 1.2 for 3D operations.
  Oslandia
  
  
• PostGIS - Geographic Objects for the PostgreSQL Database
  PostGIS PSC & OSGeo
  Uses CGAL via SFCGAL
  
  
• The Shape of Alpha
  Used CGAL packages: Alpha Shapes
  
  
• Designing a library to support model-oriented generalization
  Giuliana Dettori and Enrico Puppo
  Department of Computer Science
  University of Genova, Italy.
  
  

Geometry Processing

• IRON (ERC Starting grant project)
  Pierre Alliez
  INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, France.
  Optimal transport for robust shape reconstruction
  Used CGAL packages: 2D/3D Delaunay triangulations, Polyhedral surfaces, Fast intersection and distance computations.
  
  
• GoodShape (ERC project)
  Bruno Lévy and the ALICE project-team
  LORIA, INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, France.
  Efficient Computation of 3D Clipped Voronoi Diagram
  Lp Centroidal Voronoi Tesselation and its Applications
  On Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation - Energy Smoothness and Fast Computation
  Isotropic Remeshing with Fast and Exact Computation of Restricted Voronoi Diagram
  Centroidal Voronoi Tessellations for Line Segments and Graphs
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Delaunay triangulations.
  
  
• MEsh Processing Platform
  Florent Dupont,
  Developed by the M2Disco research team of the LIRIS CNRS lab (Lyon, France).
  
  
• Edge Subdivision Schemes and the Construction of Smooth Vector Fields
  Ke Wang, Weiwei, Yiying Tong, Mathieu Desbrun and Peter Schröder
  Caltech, USA.
  
  
• Surface Mesh Overlay
  Xiangmin Jiao
  Computer Science Department
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  
  

Mathematics

• Hyperbolic polyhedral surfaces with regular faces (arXiv)
  Yohji Akama and Bobo Hua
  Tohoku University, Japan and Fudan university, China.
  Used CGAL package: 2D periodic hyperbolic triangulations

Medical Modeling and Biophysics

• Three Dimensional Optimization of Scaffold Porosities for Bone Tissue Engineering
  Patrick Dondl and Marius Zeinhofer
  University of Freiburg, Germany.
  Used CGAL package: 3D Triangulations.
  
  
• Density Distributions and Depth in Flocks - Topological Models of Swarming
  Jason M. Lewis and Matthew S. Turner
  University of Warwick, UK.
  Used CGAL packages: 3D convex hulls, 3D triangulations, 3D triangulation data structure, 3D alpha shapes
  
  
• OpenMEEG - A C++ package for low-frequency bio-electromagnetism solving forward problems in the field of EEG and MEG
  Athena project-team
  INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Surface Mesh Generation
  
  
• MXL - Improving therapy planning for hip, shoulder and knee joint surgery
  Stefan Zachow, Hans Lamecker, Heiko Seim, Carl Martin Grewe, Max Kahnt, Moritz Ehlke, and Matthias Bindernagel
  Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB)
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Mesh Generation
  
  
• Logiciel MeshINSERM: Mesher by INSERM
  J.C Souplet (jcsouplet@lri.fr), C Lim, V Leboeuf, C.-L. Benhamou
  See poster 1 (in French).
  See poster 2 (in French).
  INSERM U658, Orléans, France
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Mesh Generation
  
  
• In silico tomographic image generation
  Konstantinos Eftaxias, Vissarion Fisikopoulos, and George M. Spyrou
  Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and Biomedical Informatics Unit, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Greece
  In silico tomographic image generation using Monte Carlo and Computational Geometry, 10th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (to appear)
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Delaunay Triangulations, 3D Mesh Generation
  
  
• VBL/VBL-Rad: Virtual Biophysics Lab
  Edoardo Milotti and Roberto Chignola
  Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (Trieste)
  Used CGAL packages: 3D convex hull, 3D Delaunay triangulation, 3D alpha shapes
  
  
• Design and Modeling of Cellular Solids
  Maarten Moesen, S.V. Lomov, J. Schrooten, H. Van Oosterwyck and I. Verpoest
  Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering (MTM), K.U. Leuven, Belgium.
  - Numerical optimization of bone scaffold geometry based on local strain distributions, Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering (CMBBE 2008), Porto, Portugal, 27 February-1 March 2008
  - Bone Scaffold Design Based On Optimization of Local Strain Distributions, Proceedings of the 16th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB 2008), Lucerne, Switzerland, 6-9 July 2008
  - MOESEN, Maarten, CRAEGHS, Tom, KRUTH, Jean-Pierre, et al. Robust beam compensation for laser-based additive manufacturing. Computer-Aided Design, 2011, vol. 43, no 8, p. 876-888.
  Used CGAL packages: Surface mesher, Polyhedron, 3D Nef Polyhedron, 2D constrained Delaunay Triangulation
  
  
• FEMOMUM: Fetal and Mother Numerical Models
  paper
  Isabelle Bloch et al.
  TSI department at Télécom ParisTech
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Mesh Generation
  
  
• SOFA Mesh Generation Plugin
  The SOFA Framework
  Used CGAL packages:3D Mesh Generation
  
  

Mesh Generation and Surface Reconstruction

• BallMerge: High-quality Fast Surface Reconstruction via Voronoi Balls (free version)
  Amal Dev Parakkat, Stefan Ohrhallinger, Elmar Eisemann, and Pooran Memari
  TU Wien, Austria, TU Delft, The Netherlands, LIX and Telecom ParisTech, France.
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Triangulations
  
  
• Tetra-NeRF: Representing Neural Radiance Fields Using Tetrahedra
  Jonas Kulhanek and Torsten Sattler
  Czech Technical University in Prague,
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Triangulations
  
  
• LocPSC: Software for Generating Large Delaunay Meshes of Surfaces, Volumes, Piecewise-Smooth Surfaces, Non-manifolds
  Tamal Krishna Dey and Andrew Slatton
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Triangulations
  
  
• ISO2Mesh: a free 3D surface and volumetric mesh generator for Matlab/Octave
  Qianqian Fang
  Optics Division, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Surface Mesh Generation, 3D Mesh Generation, Triangulated Surface Mesh Simplification
  
  
• DelPSC : Delaunay Mesh Generation of Surfaces, Volumes, and Complexes
  Tamal K. Dey and Joshua Levine
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  The Ohio State University, USA.
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Triangulations
  
  
• Surface reconstruction
  Marc Pouget
  INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, France.
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Delaunay Triangulations.
  
  
• Surface reconstruction, simplification and encoding
  Rémi Allègre and Raphaëlle Chaine
  LIRIS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, France.
  
  
• CQMesh (Strictly Convex Quadrangulations from Triangulations)
  Marcelo Siqueira and Suneeta Ramaswami
  Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil; Rutgers University, USA.
  Used CGAL packages: Kernel, 2D Polygons.
  
  
• QualMesh : Quality Delaunay Meshing of Polyhedra
  Tamal K. Dey and Tathagata Ray
  Jyamiti group, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  The Ohio State University, USA.
  
  
• Cocone : Surface Reconstruction
  Tamal Dey and Joachim Giesen
  Computer and Information Science
  The Ohio State University, USA.
  
  

2D and 3D Modelers

• OpenSCAD, a software for creating solid 3D CAD objects
  Used CGAL packages:2D and 3D Nef Polyhedra
  
  
• K-3D, 3D modeling and animation software
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Nef Polyhedra
  
  
• Graphite
  The ALICE project
  LORIA, INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, France.
  Used CGAL packages: 2D and 3D Delaunay triangulations, constrained and non-constrained.
  
  
• CGAL Arrangement of IRIT Free-form Curves
  Technion, Israel.
  Used CGAL packages: Arrangements.
  
  

Molecular Modeling

• Topology-driven Trajectory Synthesis with an Example on Retinal Cell Motions
  Chen Gu, Leonidas Guibas, and Michael Kerber
  Google Inc., Stanford University, and Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics.
  Used CGAL packages: 2D and 3D Periodic Triangulations.
  
  
• A triangulation-based method to identify dislocation in atomistic models
  Alexander Stukowski
  Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Triangulations
  
  
• Structural Bioinformatics Library
  ABS project-team - Algorithms Biology Structure
  INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Alpha Shapes, 3D Triangulations, 3D Spherical Geometry Kernel, Halfedge Data Structures, Algebraic Kernel, dD Geometry Kernel
  
  
• Protein-DNA interaction
  A discriminatory function for prediction of protein-DNA interactions based on alpha shape modeling. Bioinformatics, 26(20), 2010, pp 2541-2548.
  Prediction of DNA-binding protein based on statistical and geometric features and support vector machines. Proteome Science, 9(SUPPL. 1), 2011, pp 1-6.
  Alpha shape and Delaunay triangulation in studies of protein related interactions. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2012, doi:10.1093/bib/bbs077.
  Weiqiang Zhou and Hong Yan
  City University of Hong Kong
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Alpha shapes
  
  
• NanoShaper: Ray-Casting for Molecular Surfaces triangulation, dielectric map computation and analysis
  S. Decherchi and W. Rocchia
  Italian Institute of Technology
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Alpha-shapes and 3D Regular Triangulation
  
  
• Applications of computational geometry to the molecular simulation of interfaces
  Florencio Balboa Usabiaga and Daniel Duque
  Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  Used CGAL packages:2D and 3D Alpha-shapes
  
  
• Protein Voronoi tessellation tools for Docking
  A collaborative filtering approach for protein-protein docking scoring functions. PLoS One 2011, 6(4):e18541. PMID: 21526112
  Comparing Voronoi and Laguerre tessellations in the protein-protein docking context. Sixth International Symposium on Voronoi Diagrams (ISVD), Copenhagen. 2009.
  DiMoVo: a Voronoi tessellation-based method for discriminating crystallographic and biological protein-protein interactions. Bioinformatics 2008, 24(5):652-8. PMID: 18204058
  A new protein-protein docking function based on interface residues properties. Bioinformatics 2007, 23(5):555-62. PMID: 17237048
  Une nouvelle fonction de score pour l'amarrage protéine-protéine fondée sur les diagrammes de Voronoi. In proceedings of Journées Ouvertes de Biologie Informatique Mathématiques; Lyon, France. 2005:459-469.
  A docking analysis of the statistical physics of protein-protein recognition. Physical Biology 2005, 2:S17-S23. PMID: 16204845.
  Julie Bernauer , Anne Poupon et al
  INRIA Saclay - Ile de France and Institut de Biochimie et de Biophysique Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay.
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Triangulations
  
  
• DISCO: Structure determination of protein homo-oligomers with cyclic symmetry
  Jeffrey W. Martin and Bruce R. Donald
  Bruce Donald Lab, Duke University
  Used CGAL packages: Arrangements
  
  

Motion Planning

• HBot - Generating maps from robot paths
  Hadrien Hamel
  More information can be found here.
  Used CGAL packages: 2D polygons, 2D Regularized Boolean Set-Operations, 2D Constrained Delaunay triangulations
  
  
• Disconnection Proofs for Motion Planning
  Julien Basch, Leonidas J. Guibas, David Hsu and An Thai Nguyen
  Computer Science Department
  Stanford University, USA.
  
  
• Route Planning in Transportation Networks
  Simeon Andreev, Julian Dibbelt, Martin Nöllenburg, Thomas Pajor, and Dorothea Wagner
  Algorithmics I at the Institute of Theoretical Informatics
  Karlsruher Institute of Technology, Germany.
  Used CGAL packages: Visibility, Arrangements, Delaunay Triangulations, and Spatial Searching and Sorting
  
  
• Polygon Coverage Planning
  Rik Bähnemann, Nicholas Lawrance, Jen Jen Chung, Michael Pantic, Roland Siegwart, and Juan Nieto
  Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zürich
  See publication
  Used CGAL packages: Algebraic Foundations, 2D and 3D Linear Geometry Kernel, 2D Polygon, Geometric Object Generators, STL Extensions, 2D Triangulation, 2D Regularized Boolean Set-Operations, 2D Straight Skeleton and Polygon Offsetting, 2D Arrangement
  
  

Optimization

• Optimal Area Polygonalization
  Nir Goren, Efi Fogel, Danny Halperin
  Computational Geometry: Solving Hard Optimization Problems
  (CG:SHOP @ SoCG 2019)
  Geometric Optimization Challenge 2019
  Used CGAL packages: 2D Polygons, 2D Triangulation, dD Spatial Searching, 2D Convex Hulls and Extreme Points
  
  

Particle Physics, Materials, Nanostructures, Microstructures, Fluid Dynamics

• An Electrodynamics Solver for Moving Sources
  Sameh Y. Elnaggar and Yahia M. M. Antar
  The Royal Military College of Canada.
  
  
• High-dimensional percolation criticality and hints of mean-field-like caging of the random Lorentz gas (arxiv)
  Benoit Charbonneau, Patrick Charbonneau, Yi Hu, and Zhen Yang,
  University of Waterloo, Canada, Duke University, USA, and Nanjing University, China
  Used CGAL packages: dD Triangulations
  
  SPIRE, a software tool for bicontinuous phase recognition: application for plastid cubic membranes
  Tobias M Hain, Michał Bykowski, Matthias Saba, Myfanwy E Evans, Gerd E Schröder-Turk, and Łucja Kowalewska
  University of Potsdam, Germany, Murdoch University, Australia, Lund University, Sweden, University of Warsaw, Poland, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
  Used CGAL packages: Advancing Front Surface Reconstruction
  
  
• Two-dimensional Ising model on random lattices with constant coordination number
  Manuel Schrauth, Julian A. J. Richter, and Jefferson S. E. Portela
  Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Würzburg, Germany, and Departamento Acadêmico de Física, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brasil
  Used CGAL packages: 2D Periodic Triangulations
  
  
• Random Spatial Structures in Physics
  Michael A. Klatt et al.
  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  Minkowski tensor density formulas for Boolean models
  Second Order Analysis of Geometric Functionals of Boolean Models
  Used CGAL packages: 2D Regularized Boolean Set-Operations
  
  
• Micro-mechanical Failure Analysis of Wet Granular Matter (SpringerLink)
  Konstantin Melnikov, Falk K. Wittel, and Hans J. Herrmann
  Computational Physics for Engineering Materials, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Periodic Triangulations
  
  
• In silico tomographic image generation using monte carlo and computational geometry
  Persistent homology and many-body atomic structure for medium-range order in the glass
  Description of Medium-Range Order in Amorphous Structures by Persistent Homology
  Yasuaki Hiraoka et al.
  Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Periodic Triangulations, 3D alpha-shapes
  
  
• Cavity averages for hard spheres in the presence of polydispersity and incomplete data
  Michael Schindler and A. C. Maggs
  ESPCI ParisTech, France
  Used CGAL packages: Periodic triangulations
  
  
• Modeling wave-induced pore pressure and effective stress in a granular seabed
  Luc Scholtès, Bruno Chareyre, Hervé Michallet, Emanuele Catalano, Donia Marzougui
  Université de Lorraine/CNRS/CREGU, and Université Grenoble Alpes/CNRS, France
  Used CGAL packages: 3D triangulations
  
  
• A combined finite-discrete element method for calculating the effective thermal conductivity of bio-aggregates based materials
  F. Pennec, A. Alzina, N. Tessier-Doyen, B. Naït-ali, N. Mati-Baouche, H. De Baynast and D.S. Smith
  Groupe d'Étude des Matériaux Hétérogènes - Centre Européen de la Céramique, Limoges, France, and Clermont University, Université Blaise Pascal, Institut Pascal UMR CNRS 6602, Aubière, France
  Used CGAL packages: 3D triangulations, surface reconstruction from point sets, 3D mesh generation
  
  
• Yade open-DEM
  A discrete element modeling framework for granular/discrete materials.
  Bruno Chareyre
  Grenoble INP, laboratoire 3SR
  Used CGAL packages: Regular and Delaunay triangulation for solid-fluid coupling, contact detection, multi-scale post-processing
  
  
• Pore-Scale Modeling of Viscous Flow and Induced Forces in Dense Sphere Packings
  Bruno Chareyre, Andreas Cortis, Emanuele Catalano, and Eric Barthélemy
  Grenoble INP
  Used CGAL packages: 3D regular triangulations
  
  
• Microstructure Mesh Simplification
  Sylvain Gouttebroze, SINTEF.
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Delaunay triangulations.
  
  
• Multiscale mechanics and Hierarchical multi-scale modeling.
  Data structure for micro-macro and multi-phase/-field models.
  V.Ogarko and S.Luding
  Faculty of Engineering Technology, University of Twente, The Netherlands.
  Used CGAL packages: 2D and 3D Delaunay triangulations, 2D and 3D regular triangulations, periodic Triangulations.
  
  
• FastJet (fast agglomerative jet clustering in particle physics)
  Matteo Cacciari and Gavin P. Salam
  LPTHE: Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6); Université Denis Diderot (Paris 7); CNRS, UMR 7589, France.
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Delaunay triangulations.
  
  
• Dynamical geometry for multiscale dissipative particle dynamics
  Gianni de Fabritiis and Peter Coveney
  Centre for Computational Science
  Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom.
  
  

Peer-to-Peer Virtual Environment

• Automatic and Autonomous Load Management in Peer-to-Peer Virtual Environments
  Mahathir Almashor, Ibrahim Khalil, Zahir Tari, and Albert Y. Zomaya
  RMIT University, Melbourne, USTHB, Algiers, and The University of Sydney
  Used CGAL packages: 3D Triangulations
  
  

Sensor Networks

• Shawn - A discrete event simulator designed with the simulation of large wireless sensor networks in mind
  Braunschweig Technical University, Germany.
  Used CGAL packages: 2D Kernel, Polygons.
  
  

Interfaces of CGAL in other languages and platforms

• CGAL SWIG-Bindings : bindings for CGAL using SWIG for Java, Python, ...
  GeometryFactory
  
  
• CGAL-Python : Python bindings for CGAL (no longer maintained)
  Naceur Meskini and Sylvain Pion, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
  
  
• CGAL Triangulations in Matlab
  The MathWorks
  
  
• CGLAB : Computational Geometry Toolbox for Scilab based on CGAL
  Naceur Meskini and Sylvain Pion, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
  Up-to-date version is available on the Scilab forge and is now maintained by Scilab team