Computer Aided Design

Related areas: computer graphics, computer aided manufacturing, solid modeling, constraing solving, architecture, VLSI design.

• Academic CAD sites on the web (primarily VLSI rather than other kinds of CAD).

• Computational Topology. Survey paper by Dey, Edelsbrunner, and Guha, presented at the conference "Computational Geometry -- Ten Years After". Includes descriptions of applications in image processing, cartography, graphics, solid modeling, mesh generation, and molecular modeling.

• Computer Aided Geometric Design.

• Computer aided geometric design at Leeds U., including work on ship and aircraft shapes.

• Curves and surfaces for geometric modeling, and Geometric Methods and Applications for Computer Science and Engineering, reviews and supplementary material for two books by Jean Gallier. See also his courses CIS 610 and CIS 700 based on the second book.

• Digital Design Media online textbook.

• "Geometric approaches to mesh generation", by Christoph Hoffman of Purdue, argues for a tighter coupling between mesh generation and computer aided design.

• GIS and CAD. John Thomas describes Rochester's experience with the interface between GIS (for large-scale geographic data) and CAD (for smaller scale architectural information such as street layout).

• Kinematics-driven Geometric Modeling: A Framework for Simultaneous Sculptured Surface Design and CNC Tool Path Generation, Q. Jeffrey Ge, 5th MSI Worksh. Comp. Geom., makes a case for tighter coupling between CAD and CAM.

• Minkowski Operations for Satellite Antenna Layout, J-D. Boissonnat, E. de Lange, and M. Teillaud, SCG 1997.

• Satellite antenna layout. How to place components on a satellite so they don't interfere with each other, using geometric techniques including decomposition of polyhedra into convex pieces.

• Symp. Comp. Geom. for Mechanics & Appl., Vienna, Austria, July 2002.