Product Description

This well-accepted introduction to computational geometry is a textbook for high-level undergraduate and low-level graduate courses. The focus is on algorithms and hence the book is well suited for students in computer science and engineering. Motivation is provided from the application areas: all solutions and techniques from computational geometry are related to particular applications in robotics, graphics, CAD/CAM, and geographic information systems. For students this motivation will be especially welcome. Modern insights in computational geometry are used to provide solutions that are both efficient and easy to understand and implement. All the basic techniques and topics from computational geometry, as well as several more advanced topics, are covered. The book is largely self-contained and can be used for self-study by anyone with a basic background in algorithms. In the second edition, besides revisions to the first edition, a number of new exercises have been added.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #576256 in Books
• Published on: 2000-01-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 379 pages

Customer Reviews

Close but not quite 5 stars.
I bought this book because the blurb said "This book is largely self-contained and can be used for self-study...". Not exactly, ok there are end of chapter exercises but where are the answers? If I knew enough to check them myself I would not need the book!

The book also suggests use for "high-level undergraduate and low-level graduate courses" this is very true, don't kid yourself you'll understand it unless you have or are in the final year of a first technical degree.

Also note that the algorithms are in pseudo-code so if you want quick results you'll not find them here. I like this idea, however, as it makes you concentrate on the general ideas rather than any particular programming languages'implementation of them.

The book is well organised and has good diagrams to help you understand the concepts but is more suited for students as a degree course book than for self-study.

If the answers were available on the book's web-site I would have given it 5 stars.

Good Geometry book
This book covers several aspects of Computational Geometry. It's easy to understand all the concepts, and the pseudo-code implementations of most of the algorithms are really useful. Also it relates each subject to a given general purpose problem, making the reading more interesting and worthy.

A great book -- giving you a solid base in comp.geom.
I use this book quite often as a reference. Having read and studied most topics in
this book I must say it cover the basics that will give you the understanding of
how to develop geometric algorithms for other problems.

I am a CS graduate student, and therefore have the basic knowledge of
algorithms and complexity analysis, and such -- I don't know if you
will enjoy the book without this knowledge, but why buy a book on
computational geometry, if these topics are out of your interest area?