For the Moveit project, I implemented a function that allows extending an AlignedBox with another AlignedBox transformed by an affine transform. I just had the idea that it could be moved directly to Eigen if other people agree such a function makes sense. For Moveit, it does, since we merge a lot of AABBs from robot links to create one big AABB of the whole robot. So what do you think about it? There already are two extend() implementations in Eigen::AlignedBox - one for extending with points, the other for extending by another (untransformed) AlignedBox. I have two suggestions on how this could be ported into Eigen and I'm not sure which one would be better, so please comment. 1) Add method `extend(const AlignedBox &b, AffineTransform &a)`. 2) Add method `transform(AffineTransform &a)` that would just apply the transform on the current AlignedBox. Merging with another one could be made using the already existing `extend(AlignedBox &b)` method. Implementation is here: https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit/blob/1906f8e67e2e191023c763f3cbc504e8d667e969/moveit_core/robot_model/include/moveit/robot_model/aabb.h https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit/blob/1906f8e67e2e191023c763f3cbc504e8d667e969/moveit_core/robot_model/src/aabb.cpp
I would go for option 2, unless combining both operations really makes a difference. It might actually be simpler to just overload operator*(Transform,AlignedBox). The implementation you link to actually implements the requested functionality only for boxes centered at the origin.
See related PR: https://bitbucket.org/eigen/eigen/pull-requests/650/added-alignedbox-operator-isometry .
For consistency with Hyperplane and ParametrizedLine we should use a transform() method.
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