Geometry of Curves and Surfaces with MAPLE
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Beschreibung
This concise text on geometry with computer modeling presents some
elementary methods for analytical modeling and visualization of curves
and surfaces. The author systematically examines such powerful tools
as 2-D and 3-D animation of geometric images, transformations,
shadows, and colors, and then further studies more complex problems in
differential geometry.
Well-illustrated with more than 350 figures---reproducible using Maple
programs in the book---the work is devoted to three main areas:
curves, surfaces, and polyhedra. Pedagogical benefits can be found in
the large number of Maple programs, some of which are analogous to C++
programs, including those for splines and fractals. To avoid tedious
typing, readers will be able to download many of the programs from the
Birkhauser web site.
Aimed at a broad audience of students, instructors of mathematics,
computer scientists, and engineers who have knowledge of analytical
geometry, i.e., method of coordinates, this text will be an excellent
classroom resource or self-study reference. With over 100 stimulating
exercises, problems and solutions, {\it Geometry of Curves and
Surfaces with Maple} will integrate traditional differential and non-
Euclidean geometries with more current computer algebra systems in a
practical and user-friendly format.
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This concise text on geometry with computer modeling is aimed at
a broad audience of students, instructors, engineers, and computer
scientists who have knowledge of analytical geometry, i.e., method of
coordinates.
Key features of this work include:
* over 350 excellent illustrations
* large number of Maple programs, some of which are analgous
to C++ programs, available on the Birkhauser web site
* presentation of practical tools, including 2-D and 3-D
animation of geometric images, transformations, shadows, and colors,
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Vladimir Rovenski
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"I was hunting for a book that would provide a set of practical exercises for the students of a graduate course entitled 'Geometric Modeling for Computer Graphics'.... The title of [this] book sounds appealing for such a purpose.... Almost every topic you could imagine about curves and surfaces is somewhere inside: this includes common, and less common, definitions and properties (parametric and implicit form, rectangular and polar form, tangent, asymptote, envelope, normal, curvature, torsion, twist, length, center of mass, evolute and involute, pedal and podoid, etc) as well as the whole menagerie of usual, and less usual, curves and surfaces (polynomials and rational polynomials, B-splines, Bezier, Hermite, Catmul--Rom, Beta-splines, scalar and vector fields, polygons and polyhedra, fractals, etc).
Of course 310 pages is a bit short to present all these topics deeply, but for each of them, there is at least a definition, an example, a piece of Maple source code and the resulting figure generated by the code (note that all the code pieces can be downloaded from the author’s web page).... The index is rich enough to easily find a topic you are interested in.
To conclude, the book is clearly valuable for at least three kinds of people: first, people who are familiar with the mathematical aspect of curves and surfaces but unfamiliar with the computation and plotting possibilities providing by Maple; second, people who are familiar with Maple but unfamiliar with curves and surfaces; third, people who are unfamiliar with both topics."
— Computer Graphics Forum
"The book can be recommended to students of mathematics, engineering or computer science, who have already a basic knowledge of MAPLE and are interested in the visualizations of geometry." ---Zentralblatt MATH
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