I. Fudos et Cm. Hoffmann, A GRAPH-CONSTRUCTIVE APPROACH TO SOLVING SYSTEMS OF GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINTS, ACM transactions on graphics, 16(2), 1997, pp. 179-216
Citations number
40
Categorie Soggetti
Computer Sciences, Special Topics","Computer Science Software Graphycs Programming
A graph-constructive approach to solving systems of geometric constrai
nts capable of efficiently handling well-constrained, overconstrained,
and underconstrained configurations is presented. The geometric const
raint solver works in two phases: in the analysis phase the constraint
graph is analyzed and a sequence of elementary construction steps is
derived, and then in the construction phase the sequence of constructi
on steps is actually carried out. The analysis phase of the algorithm
is described in detail, its correctness is proved, and an efficient al
gorithm to realize it is presented. The scope of the graph analysis is
then extended by utilizing semantic information in the form of angle
derivations, and by extending the repertoire of the construction steps
. Finally, the construction phase is briefly discussed.