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In this article we present a method to implement orthogonal polynomials and many other special functions in Computer Algebra systems enabling the user to work with those functions appropriately, and in particular to verify different types…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Wolfram Koepf

A new algorithm for computing a point on a polynomial or rational curve in B\'{e}zier form is proposed. The method has a geometric interpretation and uses only convex combinations of control points. The new algorithm's computational…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Filip Chudy , Paweł Woźny

In this paper we consider a family of algorithms for approximate implicitization of rational parametric curves and surfaces. The main approximation tool in all of the approaches is the singular value decomposition, and they are therefore…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-30 Oliver J. D. Barrowclough , Tor Dokken

We design an algorithm to compute the Newton polytope of the resultant, known as resultant polytope, or its orthogonal projection along a given direction. The resultant is fundamental in algebraic elimination, optimization, and geometric…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2013-04-26 Ioannis Z. Emiris , Vissarion Fisikopoulos , Christos Konaxis , Luis Peñaranda

We review results of papers written on the topic of polynomial amoebas with an emphasis on computational aspects of the topic. The polynomial amoebas have a lot of applications in various domains of science. Computation of the amoeba for a…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2022-11-18 Vitaly A. Krasikov

In this paper, we introduce the cyclic polygon plot, a representation based on a novel projection concept for multi-dimensional values. Cyclic polygon plots combine the typically competing requirements of quantitativeness, image-space…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Maksim Schreck , Peter Albers , Filip Sadlo

In this paper we present some new, practical, geometric optimization techniques for computing polygon partitions, 1D and 2D point, interval, square and rectangle covers, as well as 1D and 2D interval and rectangle K-centers. All the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-08-26 Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Eliana-Dina Tirsa , Cristina Teodora Andreica , Romulus Andreica , Mihai Aristotel Ungureanu

We present efficient algorithms for detecting central and mirror symmetry for the case of algebraic curves defined by means of polynomial parametrizations. The algorithms are based on the existence of a linear relationship between two…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-12-27 Juan G. Alcazar

Cloud computing offers the potential to help scientists to process massive number of computing resources often required in machine learning application such as computer vision problems. This proposal would like to show that which benefits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Yu Zhou

We introduce bindings that enable the convenient, efficient, and reliable use of software modules of CGAL (Computational Geometry Algorithm Library), which are written in C++, from within code written in Python. There are different tools…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Nir Goren , Efi Fogel , Dan Halperin

In this paper, we present three necessary conditions for recognizing point visibility graphs. We show that this recognition problem lies in PSPACE. We state new properties of point visibility graphs along with some known properties that are…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-04-07 Subir Kumar Ghosh , Bodhayan Roy

The Convex Hull algorithm is one of the most important algorithms in computational geometry, with many applications such as in computer graphics, robotics, and data mining. Despite the advances in the new algorithms in this area, it is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Roberto Carrasco , Héctor Ferrada , Cristóbal A. Navarro , Nancy Hitschfeld

We introduce an approach based on moving frames for polygon recognition and symmetry detection. We present detailed algorithms for recognition of polygons modulo the special Euclidean, Euclidean, equi-affine, skewed-affine and similarity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mireille Boutin

The purpose of this paper is to explore the question "to what extent could we produce formal, machine-verifiable, proofs in real algebraic geometry?" The question has been asked before but as yet the leading algorithms for answering such…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Erika {Á}brahám , James Davenport , Matthew England , Gereon Kremer , Zak Tonks

Collision detection plays an important role in simulation, control, and learning for robotic systems. However, no existing method is differentiable with respect to the configurations of the objects, greatly limiting the sort of algorithms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Kevin Tracy , Taylor A. Howell , Zachary Manchester

We are interested in the fast computation of the exact value of integrals of polynomial functions over convex polyhedra. We present speed ups and extensions of the algorithms presented in previous work. We present the new software…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-30 Jesus De Loera , Brandon Dutra , Matthias Koeppe , Stanislav Moreinis , Gregory Pinto , Jianqiu Wu

We study terrain visibility graphs, a well-known graph class closely related to polygon visibility graphs in computational geometry, for which a precise graph-theoretical characterization is still unknown. Over the last decade, terrain…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Vincent Froese , Malte Renken

We propose a new algorithm to the problem of polygonal curve approximation based on a multiresolution approach. This algorithm is suboptimal but still maintains some optimality between successive levels of resolution using dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Pierre-François Marteau , Gilbas Ménier

In this brief paper, a simple and fast computational method, the Planar Visibility Graph Networks Algorithm was proposed based on the famous Visibility Graph Algorithm, which can fulfill converting two dimensional timeseries into a planar…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-11-25 Jie Liu , Qingqing Li