Computer Graphics in its Fifth Decade: Ferment at the Foundations

  • Authors:
  • Ron Goldman

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • PG '03 Proceedings of the 11th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Traditionally, Computer Graphics is based on the mathematics of projective geometry, homogeneous coordinates, and matrix algebra. Recently these mathematical foundations have been called into question by several authors. Here we examine some possible alternative mathematical underpinnings for Computer Graphics, including Grassmann spaces and Grassmann coordinates, tensors and tensor algebra, and Clifford spaces and Clifford algebras.