References

Most of this week's material are from Requicha's paper and Hoffmann's book. Requicha's paper is quite readable. Braid's short paper contains a brief history of boundary representation and Mantyla's book contains a detailed discussion of B-rep and Euler operators and their applications.

• Ian C. Braid, Boundary Modeling, in Fundamental Development of Computer-Aided Geometric Modeling, edited by Les Piegl, Academic Press, 1993, pp. 165-183.
• Christoph M. Hoffmann, Geometric & Solid Modeling: An Introduction, Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, California, 1989.
• Martti Mantyla, An Introduction to Solid Modeling, Computer Science Press, Rockville, Maryland, 1988.
• Michael E. Mortenson, Geometric Modeling, John Wiley & Sons, 1985.
• A. A. G. Requicha, Representations for Rigid Solids: Theory, Methods, and Systems, ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 12 (1980), pp. 437-464.