Mathematical optimization is used in nearly all computer graphics applications, from computer vision to animation. This book teaches readers the core set of techniques that every computer graphics professional should understand in order to envision and expand the boundaries of what is possible in their work. Study of this authoritative reference will help readers develop a very powerful tool- the ability to create and decipher mathematical models that can better realize solutions to even the toughest problems confronting computer graphics community today. The authors are renowned researchers from IMPA, the Brazilian National Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics.
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Computer GraphicsOptimization: an overviewOptimization and computer graphicsVariational optimizationContinuous optimizationCombinatorial optimizationGlobal OptimizationProbability and Optimization
