noun
Meaning 1
A field of study, within computer science, devoted to algorithms that solve problems formulated in geometric terms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: computer, computing, engineering, geometry, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, science, sciences
Examples
- 1991, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Lines in Space—A Collection of Results, Jacob E. Goodman, Richard D. Pollack, William L. Steiger (editors), Discrete and Computational Geometry: Papers from the DIMACS Special Year, American Mathematical Society, Association for Computing Machinery, page 77, In computational geometry it is a truism that problems in three-dimensional space, R3, are significantly more difficult and complex than the corresponding problems in the two-dimensional plane, R2.
- 2003, Ren-Hong Wang, Multivariate Spline and Geometry, Ren-Hong Wang (editor), Computational Geometry, American Mathematical Society, International Press, page 195, In this survey, we will be concerned with the relationship between multivariate splines and geometries including computational geometry, differential geometry, and algebraic geometry.
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