This version of convex_decomposition deprecated by author #6
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In my looking around re. #5 , I mentioned finding that John Ratcliff appears to have labeled his own library as deprecated. I thought I'd split this out as a separate issue.
I'm very new to ROS so this discussion is over my head, but I thought it should at least be mentioned that the creator of this library seems to point others to use something else. From his blog:
Many people come to this weblog because they are searching on terms for 'Convex Decomposition'. This blog post is to announce that there is a much, much, better open source implementation than the one I did. I suppose I can take some tiny credit as my work appears to have inspired the authors of the new algorithm but that's not really saying much. All credit where credit is due and the open source implementation released by Khaled Mamou is vastly superior to the brute force approach that mine took. His is much more elegant and also solves a lot of extremely hard problems; such as objects with holes in them (something my algorithm could not deal with). His also does not suffer with the problem mine had with excessive recursion depths producing hollow interiors.
You can find the paper for this algorithm at this location:
ftp://ftp.elet.polimi.it/users/Stefano.Tubaro/ICIP_USB_Proceedings_v2/pdfs/0003501.pdfYou can download the source to HACD from this location on SourceForge
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hacd/With this announcement I will no longer be supporting my legacy ConvexDecomposition code in any way. I am switching to using HADC in all of my projects. I recommend you do the same.
The ftp link is broken, but Mamou refers to his publications listing on the post where he announces HACD, which yields this alternate link to his IEEE 2009 paper.