One day satellite event of the 10th anniversary event of the LIAMA on
CGAL - The Computational Geometry Algorithms Library
19th January, 2007, Beijing, China
This one day event on CGAL is part of the 10th anniversary event of the LIAMA in Beijing. The presentations of the morning sessions give an overview on the available technology, and show how the project is organized. The afternoon sessions give more details on some of the key CGAL packages. The event closes with a panel discussion on various aspects of technology transfer related to CGAL.
You can register here for this event. For getting more information, please contact andreas.fabri@geometryfactory.com or sylvain.pion@sophia.inria.fr.
About CGAL
The goal of the CGAL Project is to provide easy access to efficient and reliable geometric algorithms to users in industry and academia in the form of a C++ library. It is developed at research institutes and companies, such as INRIA, Max-Planck Institute, ETH Zurich, Tel-Aviv University, GeometryFactory, and others.
CGAL is used in various areas with a need for geometric computation, such as computer graphics, scientific visualization, computer aided design and modeling, geographic information systems, molecular biology, medical imaging, robotics, and computational fluid dynamics.
Program
Overview Sessions
09:00 - 09:10 Welcome (Sylvain Pion)
09:10 - 10:10 Overview of the CGAL Library (Andreas Fabri)
- Introduction
- Data structures and algorithms
- CGAL compared to other geometry software
- Applications using CGAL
10:10 - 10:45 Organization of the CGAL Project (Sylvain Pion)
- Consortium
- Editorial Board
- GeometryFactory
- Infrastructure: gforge and process
- Open source and commercial licenses
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:30 CGLAB - The Geometry Toolbox for Scilab (Andreas Fabri)
11:30 - 12:00 Questions and Answers
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break
In Depth Technical Sessions
13:30 - 13:40 Welcome (Andreas Fabri)
13:40 - 14:30 Design Goals and Programming Paradigms (Sylvain Pion)
- Generic programming
- Exact geometric computing
- Language bindings for Python and Java
14:30 - 15:30 Triangulations and Mesh Generation (Andreas Fabri)
- Triangulations in 2D and 3D
- Mesh generation
- Applications in medical imaging and GIS
15:30 - 15:45 Break
15:45 - 16:15 Arrangements and their Applications (Sylvain Pion)
- Arrangements
- Applications in VLSI and molecular biology
Panel Discussion
16:15 - 17:15
Participants: Gerard Giraudon (INRIA), Claude Gomez (Scilab), Andreas Fabri (GeometryFactory), Sylvain Pion (CGAL), Jun-Hai Yong (Tsinghua University)
17:15 Closing
