Mink add distance bw two polygons

[kabirkedia]

Summary of Changes

This pull request addresses issue #2928. It implements a function distance_between_two_polygons to calculate the square of the shortest distance between two polygons based on @efifogel 's algorithm (as described in the issue) (Note:- Ignore the commits before today; they were unnecessary, and I've removed them all)

Release Management

• Affected package(s): Minkowski_2
• Issue(s) solved (if any): fix #2928
• Feature/Small Feature (if any): implement a function to calculate the shortest distance between two algorithms
• License and copyright ownership:

[sloriot]

@efifogel could you check what we should do with this PR?

[efifogel]

I guess it's a feature request. Leave it. I'll implement it when I have a moment.

---

/_____/) o /_________ __ // (____ ( ( ( (/ (/-(-'_(/ _/

On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 at 15:03, Sebastien Loriot @.***> wrote:

@efifogel https://github.com/efifogel could you check what we should do with this PR?

— Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/pull/5618#issuecomment-1860445265, or unsubscribe https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABVBNOHZJWMLLISFBI7CVBLYKA5LDAVCNFSM425C2CDKU5DIOJSWCZC7NNSXTN2JONZXKZKDN5WW2ZLOOQ5TCOBWGA2DINJSGY2Q . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: @.***>