diff --git a/apps/sample/edgemesh_sampling/edgemesh_sampling.cpp b/apps/sample/edgemesh_sampling/edgemesh_sampling.cpp
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+++ b/apps/sample/edgemesh_sampling/edgemesh_sampling.cpp
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+/****************************************************************************
+* VCGLib                                                            o o     *
+* Visual and Computer Graphics Library                            o     o   *
+*                                                                _   O  _   *
+* Copyright(C) 2004-2012                                           \/)\/    *
+* Visual Computing Lab                                            /\/|      *
+* ISTI - Italian National Research Council                           |      *
+*                                                                    \      *
+* All rights reserved.                                                      *
+*                                                                           *
+* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify      *
+* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by      *
+* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or         *
+* (at your option) any later version.                                       *
+*                                                                           *
+* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,           *
+* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of            *
+* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the             *
+* GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt)          *
+* for more details.                                                         *
+*                                                                           *
+****************************************************************************/
+#include<vcg/complex/complex.h>
+
+#include<wrap/io_trimesh/import_off.h>
+#include<wrap/io_trimesh/export_off.h>
+#include<wrap/io_trimesh/export_ply.h>
+
+#include<vcg/complex/algorithms/point_sampling.h>
+#include<vcg/complex/algorithms/create/platonic.h>
+
+using namespace vcg;
+using namespace std;
+
+class MyEdge;
+class MyFace;
+class MyVertex;
+struct MyUsedTypes : public UsedTypes<	Use<MyVertex>   ::AsVertexType,
+                                        Use<MyEdge>     ::AsEdgeType,
+                                        Use<MyFace>     ::AsFaceType>{};
+
+class MyVertex  : public Vertex<MyUsedTypes, vertex::Coord3f, vertex::Normal3f, vertex::VEAdj, vertex::BitFlags  >{};
+class MyFace    : public Face< MyUsedTypes, face::FFAdj,  face::Normal3f, face::VertexRef, face::BitFlags > {};
+class MyEdge    : public Edge<MyUsedTypes,edge::VertexRef, edge::VEAdj, edge::EEAdj, edge::BitFlags >{};
+class MyMesh    : public tri::TriMesh< vector<MyVertex>, vector<MyFace> , vector<MyEdge>  > {};
+
+
+
+
+int main( int argc, char **argv )
+{
+  if(argc<2)
+  {
+    printf("Usage trimesh_base <meshfilename.obj> radius\n");
+    return -1;
+  }
+
+  MyMesh m,e;
+
+  if(tri::io::ImporterOFF<MyMesh>::Open(m,argv[1])!=0)
+  {
+    printf("Error reading file  %s\n",argv[1]);
+    exit(0);
+  }
+
+  printf("Input mesh has %i vert %i faces\n",m.vn,m.fn);
+
+
+  tri::UpdateTopology<MyMesh>::FaceFace(m);
+  tri::UpdateNormal<MyMesh>::PerVertexNormalizedPerFaceNormalized(m);
+
+  tri::UpdateFlags<MyMesh>::FaceFauxSignedCrease(m,math::ToRad(-40.f),math::ToRad(40.f  ),false);
+  assert(tri::Clean<MyMesh>::IsFaceFauxConsistent(m));
+  tri::BuildFromNonFaux(m,e);
+  printf("Out mesh has %i vert %i edges\n",e.vn,e.en);
+
+  tri::UpdateTopology<MyMesh>::VertexEdge(e);
+  tri::Clean<MyMesh>::SelectNonManifoldVertexOnEdgeMesh(e);
+  printf("Selected vertices %i\n",tri::UpdateSelection<MyMesh>::VertexCount(e));
+  tri::Clean<MyMesh>::SplitSelectedVertexOnEdgeMesh(e);
+  printf("Out mesh has %i vert %i edges\n",e.vn,e.en);
+  tri::Clean<MyMesh>::SelectCreaseVertexOnEdgeMesh(e,math::ToRad(30.f));
+  printf("Selected vertices %i\n",tri::UpdateSelection<MyMesh>::VertexCount(e));
+  tri::Clean<MyMesh>::SplitSelectedVertexOnEdgeMesh(e);
+  printf("Out mesh has %i vert %i edges\n",e.vn,e.en);
+
+  tri::io::ExporterPLY<MyMesh>::Save(e,"out.ply", tri::io::Mask::IOM_EDGEINDEX);
+
+  std::vector<Point3f> sampleVec;
+  tri::TrivialSampler<MyMesh> ps(sampleVec);
+  tri::SurfaceSampling<MyMesh>::EdgeMeshUniform(e,ps,m.bbox.Diag()/90.0f);
+  MyMesh sampleMesh;
+  tri::Build(sampleMesh,sampleVec);
+  tri::io::ExporterPLY<MyMesh>::Save(sampleMesh,"sampleMesh.ply");
+  return 0;
+}
diff --git a/apps/sample/edgemesh_sampling/edgemesh_sampling.pro b/apps/sample/edgemesh_sampling/edgemesh_sampling.pro
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+++ b/apps/sample/edgemesh_sampling/edgemesh_sampling.pro
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+include(../common.pri)
+TARGET = edgemesh_sampling
+SOURCES += edgemesh_sampling.cpp ../../../wrap/ply/plylib.cpp