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Abstract: Collision Detection between Geometric Models: A Survey

Collision Detection between Geometric Models: A Survey

M. Lin
S. Gottschalk

To Appear in the Proceedings of IMA Conference on Mathematics of Surfaces 1998.

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Abstract:

In this paper, we survey the state of the art in collision detection between general geometric models. The set of models include polygonal objects, spline or algebraic surfaces, CSG models, and deformable bodies. We present a number of techniques and systems available for contact determination. We also describe several N-body algorithms to reduce the number of pairwise intersection tests.

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