Representations for Rigid Solids: Theory, Methods, and Systems

Computer-based systems for modehng the geometry of rigid solid objects are becoming increasingly important in mechanical and civil engineering, architecture, computer graphics, computer vision, and other fields that deal with spatial phenomena. At the heart of such systems are symbol structures (representations) designating "abstract solids" (subsets of Euclidean space) that model physical solids. Representations are the sources of data for procedures which compute useful properties of objects.