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Title: Computational Geometry: An Introduction (Texts and Monographs in Computer Science) by Franco P. Preparata, Michael Ian Shamos ISBN: 0-387-96131-3 Publisher: Springer Verlag Pub. Date: August, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $76.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: This book is history
Comment: This book is a classic, in fact the author's PhD thesis created this field, but this book is too old for any meaningful graduate work. There are new bounds and algorithms on almost all topics, which makes this a somewhat undesirable book. Also, this book has failed to keep me interested in it, while I am reading it...

Rating: 5
Summary: Very useful for code development. Very clear and readable.
Comment: The ideas and algorithms presented in this book are clear enough for straight implementation in code. I have long experience in developing comercial and production software for VLSI layout applications, which made extensive use of the algorithms presented in this book.
I also use some chapters of this book as a part of a graduate course in VLSI layout algorithms being tought at the Technion, Israel. The contents of this book is well understood by EE and CS students.
I personally love this book, which introduced me into the area of computational geometry and its applications.

Rating: 4
Summary: Useful but thick
Comment: Most of the papers that I've read on computational geometry refer to this text -- and for good reason. There's many good algorithms to be found here.

The book only gets 4 stars because it's hard to read. It took me several tries to pick up the ideas in this text. I think the De Berg text is MUCH easier to read.

The book is also getting a little dated. Some of the topics have come a long way since the 80's.

This book seems to be in most University libraries if you have that option.

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