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Jun 08, 2012

Early days of computational geometry: Back to 1978

Post @ 11:46:04 | history

Well, I was reading a 1979 article by KQ Brown on the construction of Voronoi diagrams from convex hulls (solving it using inversion and not the classical paraboloid lifting map) when I saw the 1978 reference of a PhD on "computational geometry":

@phdthesis{PhD-Zolnowsky-1978,
 author = {John Edward Zolnowsky},
 title = {Topics in computational geometry},
 year = {1978},
 month = feb,
 publisher = {Stanford University},
 address = {Stanford, CA, USA},
} 

A web search on Google books gave me the PDF. The thesis was defended in Stanford before the M. I Shamos' one (May 1978, Yale U). I am impressed by its concision: 52 pages and 12 references. (The PDF has more pages because it scanned recto-verso... -:) )

Here you can browse it.

Frank.