Guide to Computational Geometry Processing: Foundations, Algorithms, and Methods

By Jakob Andreas BærentzenHenrik AanaesFrançois Anton, et al.

Book Overview

This book reviews the algorithms for processing geometric data, with a practical focus on important techniques not covered by traditional courses on computer vision and computer graphics. Features: presents an overview of the underlying mathematical theory, covering vector spaces, metric space, affine spaces, differential geometry, and finite difference methods for derivatives and differential equations; reviews geometry representations, including polygonal meshes, splines, and subdivision surfaces; examines techniques for computing curvature from polygonal meshes; describes algorithms for mesh smoothing, mesh parametrization, and mesh optimization and simplification; discusses point location databases and convex hulls of point sets; investigates the reconstruction of triangle meshes from point clouds, including methods for registration of point clouds and surface reconstruction; provides additional material at a supplementary website; includes self-study exercises throughout the text.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447160312
• ISBN13: 9781447160311
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"