# Last edited on 2024-09-18 16:45:05 by stolfi

This program generates another family of 3D objects for the topological mesh slicing paper (Minetto et al 2024). Their purpose is to analyze experimentally the dependency of the running time of the main algorithm on parameters such as the number of edges {nE}, the number of cutting planes {k}, and the number of plane-edge intersections {m}.  The general member of the family {B(Ns,Nr,Nb)} is a keg-shaped object, symmetric about the {Z} axis and the {Z=0} plane, whose wall consists of {Nr} rings of {Ns} trapezoidal faces.  Each meridional (vertical-ish) side of those faces is subdivided into {Nb+1} edges by {Nb} vertices of degree 2.