Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering
Online ISSN : 1882-675X
Print ISSN : 0912-0289
ISSN-L : 0912-0289
Computer Aided Geometric Design Based on Totally Four-Dimensional Homogeneous Processing (lst report)
Theoretical Background and Outline
Fujio YAMAGUCHI
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1998 Volume 64 Issue 5 Pages 731-737

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The author argues that as long as euclidean processing provides the basis for CAD, there will always be a limit to the level of reliability achievable in a system, i.e., a CAD system contains within it elements that inevitably lead to a system's inaccuracy, instability, and complexity because “a division operation is the root cause of all evil”. The author proposes a new geometric processing paradigm in which there is no need of performing a division operation, i.e., “Totally Four-Dimensional Homogeneous Paradigm”. He discusses the paradigm from the points of its theoretical foundations, geometric definitions, geometric computations and topological definitions.

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