1st Edition

Geometric Data Structures for Computer Graphics

By Elmar Langetepe, Gabriel Zachmann Copyright 2006
362 Pages
by A K Peters/CRC Press

362 Pages
by A K Peters/CRC Press

Data structures and tools from computational geometry help to solve problems in computer graphics; these methods have been widely adopted by the computer graphics community yielding elegant and efficient algorithms. This book focuses on algorithms and data structures that have proven to be versatile, efficient, fundamental, and easy to implement. The book familiarizes students, as well as... Read more
1. Quadtrees and Octrees 2. Orthogonal Windowing and Stabbing Queries 3. BSP Trees 4. Bounding Volume Hierarchies 5. Distance Fields 6. Voronoi Diagrams 7. Geometric Proximity Graphs 8. Kinetic Data Structures 9. Degeneracy and Robustness 10. Dynamization of Geometric Data Structures

Biography

Langetepe, Elmar; Zachmann, Gabriel