New Name for the CGAL Polyhedron Demo

We are talking about the application that is currently in the directory CGAL-4.13/demo/Polyhedron/.

Wednesday 5 September 2018, during the evening, there was a sort of brainstorming about giving a new name for that application. It's current name is "CGAL Polyhedron Demo", but:

• this application is far more than a demo, and can be used for real productive work, as a competitor of MeshLab, or CloudCompare, for example,
• the application is no longer about Polyhedron data structure: it deals with almost all 3D data structures and algorithms of CGAL.

So, there was that brain storming about the naming of the application, and here are the proposals:

• Cicada (in French a cicada is named Cigale, that is pronounced like C-gal)
• Sakado (as a bad joke)
• Cgala / Cigala
• Cgalery / CGALery
• CGAL studio
• Geomethree / Geome3
• CGAL4any1 (because that is a way to give CGAL to anyone, develop or not).
• CGAL lab / CGALab

See also Other proposals after the first brainstorm (below).

Discussion

Cicada

• 🆗 The pronunciation is all right in English, and various European languages.
• 🆗 No trademark issue.
• ➖ cicada.org is squatted.

Sakado

• ❌ Let's forget that one! It was a pun after cicada, because their pronunciations are similar but with different vowels.

Cgala

• 🆗 Again a pun, around the pronunciation of CGAL as C-gal, but that pun is acceptable.
• ➖ There is company named CGALA in France.

Cgalery / CGALery

• ➖ It sounds like a gallery of something for C/C++, and not like an application,
• ➖ The name is used for various things. See on Google.

CGAL Studio

• 🆗 The name says what it is. It sounds professional, maybe too professional for the current state of the application.

Geomethree / geome3

• A pun, acceptable.
• We are not the first ones using that pun: geomethree on Google, and geome3 on Google.

CGAL4any1

• 🆗 For "CGAL for anyone".
• 🆗 Not known by Google.

CGAL Lab / Cgalab

• ➖ "Cgalab" is know by Google
• 🆗 CGAL Lab is all right.

Other proposals after the first brainstorm