Category: Numerics
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Rational Computational Geometry in Python
In the previous article, we looked at how a standard technique for determining the collinearity of points, based on computing the sign of the area of the triangle formed by two points on the line and a third query point. We discovered, that when used with Python’s float type [1 …
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Rational Computational Geometry in Python
In the previous article, we looked at how a standard technique for determining the collinearity of points, based on computing the sign of the area of the triangle formed by two points on the line and a third query point. We discovered, that when used with Python’s float type [1 …
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The Folly of Floating-Point for Robust Geometric Computation
Computational geometry – a world where lines have zero thickness, circles are perfectly round and points are dimensionless. Creating robust geometric algorithms using finite precision number types such as float is fiendishly difficult because it’s not possible to exactly represent numbers such as one-third, which rather gets in the way of …
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The Folly of Floating-Point for Robust Geometric Computation
Computational geometry – a world where lines have zero thickness, circles are perfectly round and points are dimensionless. Creating robust geometric algorithms using finite precision number types such as float is fiendishly difficult because it’s not possible to exactly represent numbers such as one-third, which rather gets in the way of …