COMPGEOM
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
2011
ACM
We consider the offset-deconstruction problem: Given a polygonal shape Q with n vertices, can it be expressed, up to a tolerance ε in Hausdorff distance, as the Minkowski sum o...
ALIFE
2006
13 years 11 months ago
2006
It has been argued that a central objective of nanotechnology is to make products inexpensively, and that self-replication is an effective approach to very low-cost manufacturing....
IV
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
This paper describes a new spline formulation that supports deformation of polygonal shapes into smooth spline surface models. Once a polygonal shape with underlying rectangular t...
COCOON
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2003
Springer
Drugs and other chemical compounds are often modeled as polygonal shapes, where each vertex represents an atom of the molecule, and covalent bonds between atoms are represented by...