<s>
The	O
Computational	B-Language
Geometry	I-Language
Algorithms	I-Language
Library	I-Language
(	O
CGAL	B-Language
)	O
is	O
an	O
open	O
source	O
software	B-Library
library	I-Library
of	O
computational	O
geometry	O
algorithms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
primarily	O
written	O
in	O
C++	B-Language
,	O
Scilab	B-Application
bindings	O
and	O
bindings	O
generated	O
with	O
SWIG	B-Application
(	O
supporting	O
Python	B-Language
and	O
Java	B-Language
for	O
now	O
)	O
are	O
also	O
available	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
When	O
used	O
for	O
other	O
open	O
source	O
software	O
,	O
it	O
is	O
available	O
under	O
open	O
source	O
licenses	O
(	O
LGPL	B-Application
or	O
GPL	B-License
depending	O
on	O
the	O
component	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
CGAL	B-Language
project	O
was	O
founded	O
in	O
1996	O
,	O
as	O
a	O
consortium	O
of	O
eight	O
research	O
institutions	O
in	O
Europe	O
and	O
Israel	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
CGAL	B-Language
Releases	O
3.x	O
were	O
distributed	O
under	O
the	O
QPL	B-Language
license	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Starting	O
with	O
CGAL	B-Language
4.0	O
,	O
released	O
in	O
2012	O
,	O
CGAL	B-Language
is	O
distributed	O
under	O
the	O
GPL	B-License
version	O
3	O
.	O
it	O
is	O
managed	O
by	O
a	O
thirteen-member	O
editorial	O
board	O
,	O
with	O
an	O
additional	O
30	O
developers	O
and	O
reviewers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
project	O
started	O
in	O
1996	O
as	O
the	O
pooling	O
of	O
the	O
previous	O
efforts	O
of	O
several	O
project	O
participants:PlaGeo	O
and	O
SpaGeo	O
from	O
Utrecht	O
University	O
,	O
LEDA	B-Library
of	O
the	O
Max-Planck-Institute	O
for	O
Informatics	O
and	O
C++GAL	O
of	O
INRIA	O
Sophia	O
Antipolis	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
LEDA	B-Library
library	B-Library
encompasses	O
a	O
broader	O
range	O
of	O
algorithms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
comparison	O
of	O
the	O
two	O
libraries	B-Library
is	O
provided	O
by	O
Kettner	O
and	O
Näher	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Three	O
CGAL	B-Language
User	O
workshops	O
held	O
in	O
2002	O
,	O
2004	O
,	O
and	O
2008	O
highlighted	O
research	O
results	O
related	O
to	O
CGAL	B-Language
,	O
and	O
many	O
additional	O
papers	O
related	O
to	O
CGAL	B-Language
have	O
appeared	O
in	O
other	O
conferences	O
,	O
workshops	O
,	O
and	O
journals	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
library	B-Library
covers	O
the	O
following	O
topics	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
library	B-Library
is	O
supported	O
on	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
platforms	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
CGAL	B-Language
library	B-Library
depends	O
on	O
the	O
Boost	B-Language
libraries	I-Language
,	O
and	O
several	O
CGAL	B-Language
packages	O
on	O
the	O
Eigen	B-Language
C++	I-Language
library	I-Language
.	O
</s>
