Computational geometry

This MIT OpenCourseWare offers selected lecture notes, details of assignments, and a reading list taken from the Computational Geometry graduate course that was taught in the spring of 2003.

This course covers topics in surface modeling: b-splines, non-uniform rational b-splines, physically based deformable surfaces, sweeps and generalized cylinders, offsets, blending and filleting surfaces; and solid modeling: constructive solid geometry, boundary representation, non-manifold and mixed-dimension boundary representation models, octrees. Other topics also covered are: non-linear solvers and intersection problems, robustness of geometric computations, interval methods, finite and boundary element discretization methods for continuum mechanics problems, scientific visualization, variational geometry, tolerances, inspection methods, feature representation and recognition, and shape interrogation for design, analysis, and manufacturing.

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Link: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mechanical-engineering/2-158j-computational-geometry-spring-2003/index.htm
Author: Nicholas Patrikalakis; Takashi Maekawa
Publication Date: 2003-05
Source: http://ocw.mit.edu/
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
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