COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY LAB.

Mission
The Computational Geometry Laboratory has the task of maintaining the company know-how in the computational geometry field at the state of the art. It also has the task of constantly monitoring the CAD, GIS and graphical components market, to evaluate the possibility of acquiring and integrating commercial tools/modules into the IDS Frameworks.

  
Staff
The Computational Geometry Laboratory consists of 5 staff with PhDs in Physics with a background research experience in high-energy theoretical physics and a marked interest in computer graphics. It continuously works together with the other laboratories when developing new modelling and post-processing tools for the electromagnetic solvers.
 
 

Research & Application Areas
The main research areas of the laboratory are:

  • Solid Modelling (Boundary Representation and Constructive Solid Geometry)
  • Mesh generation and optimization
  • Computational Geometry algorithms for ray-tracing performance optimization
  • Visualization and Computer Graphics


 The main applications are:

  • Developing a Solid Modelling kernel to handle the geometric representation of  3D physical objects.
  • Developing a suite of  electromagnetic modellers and meshers expressly devoted to IDS solver requirements.
  • Developing CAD (Computer Aided Design) tools to be integrated into the IDS Frameworks
  • Developing graphic modules (OpenGL-based libraries) for scientific 2D and 3D graphic representations.
  • Providing terrain visualization tools for 3D GIS (Geographic Information System) applications.
  • Providing dynamic “Out of the Window” visualizations for cockpit simulators.


The Laboratory is willing to collaborate with physics and information technology students with a solid mathematical background and good computer graphics skills interested in performing their degree thesis in this field.