Geometric Programming for Computer Aided Design

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Geometric Programming is currently of interest in CAD (ComputerAided Design) and related areas such as computer graphics, modelingand animation, scientific simulation and robotics. A growinginterest towards gemotric programming is forecast in the next fewyears with respect to market specific CAD applications (e.g. forarchitecture and mechanical CAD) and web-based collaborative designenvironments. PLaSM is a general purpose functional language to compute withgeometry which the authors use throughout their text. The PLaSMlanguage output produces VRML (Virtual Reality Modelling Language)files which are used to create virtual worlds. PLaSM blends thepowerful algebraic approach to programming developed at IBMresearch, with a dimension-independent approach to geometric datastructures and algorithms, This book shows that such geometric codecan be surprisingly compact and easy to write. It begins by introducing the basic programming with PLaSM andalgebraic and geometric foundations of shape modeling, thefoundations of computer graphics, solid modeling and geometricmodeling of manifolds follows and finally discusses the applicationof geometric programming. For each topic, the mathematics is given,together with the PLaSM implementation (usually with a few lines ofreadable code) and some worked examples. * Combines excellent coverage of the theory with well-developedexamples * Numerous applications eg. scientific stimulation, robotics, CAD,Virtual Reality * Worked exercises for each topic * Uses PLaSM language (supplied) throughout to illustratetechniques * Supported with web presence Written for Industrial Practioners developing CAD software,mechanical engineers in Graphics, CAD and CAM, undergraduate andpostgraduate courses in Computer Science and MechanicalEngineering,as well as programmers involved with developingvisualization software.

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Alberto Paoluzzi

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Computer Engineering Computergraphik Computertechnik Electrical & Electronics Engineering Elektrotechnik u. Elektronik Geometrie Programmierung

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"...an ambitious text that covers a lot of ground...very suitable for postgraduate research and teaching..." (Computer-Aided Design, 2004)
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