The convex hull of ellipsoids

  • Authors:
  • Nicola Geismann;Michael Hemmer;Elmar Schömer

  • Affiliations:
  • Fachrichtung 6.2 Informatik, Universität des Saarlandes, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany;Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 85, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany;Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 85, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • SCG '01 Proceedings of the seventeenth annual symposium on Computational geometry
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The treatment of curved algebraic surfaces becomes more and more the f ocus of attention in Computational Geometry. We present a video that illustrates the computation of the convex hull of a set of ellipsoids. The underlying algorithm is an application of our work on determining a cell in a 3-dimensional arrangement of quadrics, see \cite{ghs-ccaq-01}. In the video, the main emphasis is on a simple and comprehensible visualization of the geometric aspects of the algorithm. In addition, we give some insights into the underlying mathematical problems.