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// $URL: svn+ssh://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/cgal/branches/CGAL-3.5-branch/Algebraic_kernel_for_circles/include/CGAL/Algebraic_kernel_converter.h $
// $Id: Algebraic_kernel_converter.h 33727 2006-08-25 09:02:22Z pmachado $
//
// Author(s)     : Monique Teillaud, Sylvain Pion, Constantinos Tsirogiannis

// Partially supported by the IST Programme of the EU as a Shared-cost
// RTD (FET Open) Project under Contract No  IST-2000-26473 
// (ECG - Effective Computational Geometry for Curves and Surfaces) 
// and a STREP (FET Open) Project under Contract No  IST-006413 
// (ACS -- Algorithms for Complex Shapes)

#ifndef CGAL_ALGEBRAIC_KERNEL_FOR_CIRCLES_CONVERTER_H
#define CGAL_ALGEBRAIC_KERNEL_FOR_CIRCLES_CONVERTER_H

#include <CGAL/NT_converter.h>

CGAL_BEGIN_NAMESPACE

// TODO :
// - FT converter ?

template < class Al_K1, class Al_K2,
           class RT_converter = NT_converter<typename Al_K1::RT, 
                                             typename Al_K2::RT>,
	   class Root_of_converter = NT_converter<typename Al_K1::Root_of_2,
					          typename Al_K2::Root_of_2 > >
class Algebraic_kernel_converter {
public:

	typedef typename Al_K1::RT      RT_1;
	typedef typename Al_K2::RT      RT_2;
	typedef RT_converter            RT_type_converter;
	typedef Root_of_converter       Root_of_type_converter;

	typename Al_K2::Polynomial_1_2 operator () (const typename Al_K1::Polynomial_1_2 &p) const
	{
		return typename Al_K2::Polynomial_1_2(RT_converter()(p.a()),
                                                      RT_converter()(p.b()),
					              RT_converter()(p.c()));
	}

	typename Al_K2::Polynomial_for_circles_2_2 operator () 
               	(const typename Al_K1::Polynomial_for_circles_2_2 &p) const
	{
		return typename Al_K2::Polynomial_for_circles_2_2(RT_converter()(p.a()),
                                                                  RT_converter()(p.b()),
							          RT_converter()(p.r_sq()));
	}
};

CGAL_END_NAMESPACE

#endif // CGAL_ALGEBRAIC_KERNEL_FOR_CIRCLES_CONVERTER_H
