How Symbolic Computation Can Benefit Computer-Aided Geometric Design

  • Authors:
  • Andrés Iglesias

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • AISC '00 Revised Papers from the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Computer-Aided Geometric Design (CAGD) is one of the most important fields in Computer Graphics. Usually, CAGD is handled in traditional programming languages, such as Fortran, Pascal or C. By contrast, this paper supports the idea that Symbolic Computation Systems (SCS) should be used instead. To this aim, the paper shows how some mathematical expressions for BÉzier curves and surfaces can be easily translated to the Mathematica programming language. Then, they are used to prove symbolically some mathematical properties related to these geometric entities.