文档介绍：Introduction to puting
Sherif Ghali
Introduction to
puting
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Sherif Ghali, PhD
University of Alberta
Edmonton
Canada
ISBN: 978-1-84800-114-5 e-ISBN: 978-1-84800-115-2
DOI: -1-84800-115-2
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Preface
If puting is puter graphics putational geo-
metry, then what is it? Briefly, it is the mathematics and the engineering that
underlie both.
This text
• discusses how to design libraries for Euclidean, spherical, projective,
and oriented projective geometries.
• derives the necessary results in each geometry by appealing to elemen-
tary linear algebra.
• gives a concrete implementation in C++ for classes in each library.
• suggests that the time may e for practitioners puter