College-level collections strong in engineering and modeling science will find this [book] covers the entire geometry processing pipeline, covering all kinds of models acquired by 3D scanning techniques. The latest techniques using triangle meshes receive powerful, in-depth analysis in a pick for any college-level engineering collection. -Midwest Book Review, January 2011
Surface Representations Mesh Data Structures Differential Geometry Smoothing Parameterization Remeshing Simplification & Approximation Model Repair Deformation Numerics
Leif Kobbelt is a professor of Computer Graphics & Multimedia at RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Mario Botsch is a professor of Computer Science at Bielefeld University and leads the Computer Graphics & Geometry Processing Group. Mark Pauly is an assistant professor in the computer science department of ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Pierre Alliez is a researcher in Computer Science at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, in the GEOMETRICA group. Bruno Lvy is a senior researcher in INRIA-NGE, and a member of the LORIA lab. He is the scientific head of the ALICE project team.