Computational Geometry
2.158J · Aeronautics and Astronautics, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering · Graduate · Spring 2003
Prof. Nicholas Patrikalakis, Prof. Takashi Maekawa
<p>Topics in surface modeling: b-splines, non-uniform rational b-splines, physically based deformable surfaces, sweeps and generalized cylinders, offsets, blending and filleting surfaces. Non-linear solvers and intersection problems. Solid modeling: constructive solid geometry, boundary representation, non-manifold and mixed-dimension boundary representation models, octrees. Robustness of geometric computations. Interval methods. Finite and boundary element discretization methods for continuum …
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