Geometry Chapter of the manual

[John W. Eaton]

On 16-Jul-2007, David Bateman wrote:

| Thanking about what to do with the Geometry chapter of the manual that
| only contains the function polyarea, it seems to me the logical thing to
| do would be to port the octave-forge functions convhull, convhulln,
| delaunay, delaunay3, delaunayn, griddata, tsearch, voronoi and voronoin
| and make a real chapter out of it. These are all core functions of
| matlab. However, the reason I didn't do this in the past is that this
| would require a dependency on the QHULL package to be added to Octave.
| Are we willing to accept an additional dependency on QHULL? If so I'm
| willing to do the conversion work..

I don't have a problem with the additional dependency provided that it
is optional.

jwe