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Revision: Vectors and Set-theory
Chapter 1: Precursors to Geometric Models
Chapter 2: Boundary-representation Models
Chapter 3: Cross-sectional Models and Ducts
Chapter 4: Sculptured Surfaces
Chapter 5:Bernstein Basis curves and sculptured surfaces
Chapter 6: Set-theoretic or Constructive-solid-geometry Modellers
Chapter 7: Feature Recognition
Chapter 8: Storing Non-geometric Information in Geometric Models
Chapter 9: Integral Properties of Geometric Models
Chapter 10: Constraints
Chapter 11: Configurations, Minkowski sums, and Collisions
Chapter 12: Applications and techniques
Chapter 13: The future? Procedural models
Bath users can take a copy of the entire course from the file /u/en/s/ensab/FYGM/fygm.tgz. This is intended for reading offline on a PC using Netscape or a similar browser.
Make a directory to store the course on your C: drive called, say, FYGM; put FYGM.TGZ into that directory and the program Winzip will unpack it for you.
To read the course, use Netscape's `Open File' option in the pull-down file menu to open the file C:\FYGM\GM.HTM
For details of how to get hold of Netscape, see this page.
Note that, if you are offline, you will be able to read the entire course, but the links in the documents to URLs at other places will not work.
Also in the directory /u/en/s/ensab/FYGM/ are files called ch1.ps.gz ... ch13.ps.gz. These are the thirteen chapters of the course in compressed postscript, and are intended to allow you to print paper copies of them. On any of the University Unix systems (mary, midge, ss1 etc) copy the chapter you want to your space, uncompress it using gunzip, queue it to the printer (then delete it to save space):
$ cp /u/en/s/ensab/FYGM/ch5.ps.gz .
$ gunzip ch5.ps.gz
$ lpr -Pll ch5.ps
$ rm ch5.ps
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