# CGAL

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/cgal
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/cgal.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/cgal/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://cgal.org
- **Slug:** cgal
- **Categories:** developer-tools

## Overview

- **Tagline:** An open-source, efficient, and reliable C++ library providing a wide array of robust computational geometric algorithms and data structures, supported by ongoing development and a commercial licensing option.
Source: Brand's website (https://cgal.org) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** CGAL is an open source software project that provides easy access to efficient and reliable geometric algorithms in the form of a C++ library.
Source: Brand's website (https://cgal.org) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - A C++ library offering a comprehensive suite of geometric algorithms and data structures
  - including triangulations
  - Voronoi diagrams
  - Boolean operations on polygons and polyhedra
  - point set processing
  - arrangements of curves
  - surface and volume mesh generation
  - geometry processing
  - alpha shapes
  - convex hull algorithms
  - shape reconstruction
  - and AABB and KD trees.
Source: Brand's website (https://cgal.org) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Dual license: open-source under GPL v3+ and commercially available through GeometryFactory.
Source: Brand's website (https://cgal.org) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Developers and researchers in various areas needing geometric computation, such as geographic information systems (GIS), computer-aided design (CAD), molecular biology, medical imaging, computer graphics, and robotics.
Source: Brand's website (https://cgal.org) · 2026-10-04

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