The first part of the project has been carried out in June - July 1997 at the University of South Carolina. The persons that have been participating in that part of the project are:
The purpose of the project is to develop methods for the analysis of CAD-surfaces and images with the help of graph theory and discrete geometry. The first part of the work was developed on SGI computers in the CS department at the University of South Carolina. The program will soon be ported also to SUN workstations at Chalmers. We have been using some available software packets for part of the implementation, e.g. LEDA, DT_NURBS. In the first phase of the project we are able to read CAD-surfaces from IGES files. In later stages we will also be able to get indata from VDA files, STEP files, 2D-pictures and other sources. The analyser is intended to be able to perform simple and advanced graph operations, optimal triangulations of CAD surfaces etc.
The project will continue with additional work phases, carried out alternately at Chalmers and at Univ. of South Carolina. There will be excellent opportunities for students within the frames of this project to do thesis works, programming training etc. If anyone is interested in participating in this project, please contact Vilhelm Adolfsson or Peter Hedin in Sweden, or Björn Jawerth in USA.
Last modified: Thu Sept 11 01:30:00 MET DST 1997
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