The first meeting will be on Thursday september 7th at Leiden. At this meeting an introduction to the course will be given and the further planning for the course will be established in consultation with the participants. This first meeting will be at september 7th, starting at 11.15, duration 2 hours. ASCI course a21 Multimedia Retrieval has been scheduled in the week of february 26th, 2001. The complete course will be given at the University of Amsterdam.
Geometric programming is a major issue in computer graphics, vision and robotics.
Current approaches are error-prone, due to the lack of an integrated approach to geometric modeling and algorithms. The new field of geometric algebra appears to offer a structural solution to these issues, since it permits specification of geometry at a coordinate-free, unified level, making points, lines and planes into basic elements of computation. It brings together linear algebra, projective geometry, vector calculus and the other geometries required in the applications in a direct, computational manner. In this project, we will incorporate geometric algebra into computer science by using it as a specification language for geometry. We intend to produce an executable Java implementation for general use.