[PDF] Geometric Modeling by Michael E. Mortenson

Ebook Description:

Geometric Modeling ebook by creator Michael E. Mortenson offers most up-to-date developments within the area, emphasizes readability and thoroughness within the scientific growth of its topics. E book is written in a method that is freed from jargon of particular purposes whereas integrating the three necessary capabilities of geometric modeling: to characterize easy varieties (curves, surfaces, and solids), to form and assemble these into complicated varieties, and to find out geometric properties and relationships. With a whole lot of illustrations, this e book appeals to the reader’s visible and intuitive abilities in a approach that makes it simpler to grasp its extra summary ideas. Higher-division and graduate college students, academics, and professionals finding out, educating or practising geometric modeling, 3D modeling, computational geometry, laptop graphics purposes, animation, Pc Aided Design/Pc Aided Manufacturing and associated topics will discover this to be a useful reference. The eBook describes and compares all of the necessary mathematical strategies for modeling curves, surfaces, and solids. This ebook makes the reader study extra superior subjects, equivalent to 3D modeling, CAD/CAM, animation and scientific visualization; and incorporates references all through the textual content to direct the reader to extra specialised remedies of the topics.

Book Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Curves
3. Hermite Curves
4. Bezier Curves
5. B-Spline Curves
6. Surfaces
7. The Bicubic Hermite surfaces
8. Bezier surfaces
9. B-Spline surfaces
10. Solids
11. Advanced mannequin constructions
12. Relational Geometric Synthesis
Appendix A Vectors
Appendix B Matrices
Appendix C Transformations
Bibliography
Index

Geometric modeling PDF

Author(s): Michael E. Mortenson

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Year: 1997

ISBN: 9780471129578,0471129577