ENGLISH

Computational geometry: algorithms and applications

By Prof. Dr. Mark de Berg , Dr. Otfried Cheong , Dr. Marc van Kreveld , Prof. Dr. Mark Overmars (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2008
ISBN
9783540779735, 3540779736
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-77974-2
Google Books ID
tkyG8W2163YC
Open Library ID
OL16863671M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2313994 bytes)
Edition
3
Pages
386\388
Library
Kolxo3
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11
Math Applications in Computer Science;Computer App

Description

Computational geometry emerged from the ?eld of algorithms design and analysis in the late 1970s. It has grown into a recognized discipline with its own journals, conferences, and a large community of active researchers. The success of the ?eld as a research discipline can on the one hand be explained from the beauty of the problems studied and the solutions obtained, and, on the other hand, by the many application domains—computer graphics, geographic information systems (GIS), robotics, and others—in which geometric algorithms play a fundamental role. For many geometric problems the early algorithmic solutions were either slow or dif?cult to understand and implement. In recent years a number of new algorithmic techniques have been developed that improved and simpli?ed many of the previous approaches. In this textbook we have tried to make these modern algorithmic solutions accessible to a large audience. The book has been written as a textbook for a course in computational geometry, but it can also be used for self-study.

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