AMCS 271 Applied Geometry

Differential Geometry: selected topics from the classical theory of curves and surfaces, geometric variational problems, robust computation of differential invariants, discrete differential geometry. Projective Geometry: computing with homogeneous coordinates, projective maps, quadrics and polarity. Algebraic Geometry: algebraic curves and surfaces, rational parameterizations, basic elimination theory. Kinematical Geometry: geometry of motions, kinematic mappings. The practical use of these topics is illustrated at hand of sample problems from Geometric Modelling, Computer Vision, Robotics and related areas of Geometric Computing.

Credits

3