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AREAS OF INTERESTS
I have a wide range of interests in the general area of computing, often crossing into other fields such as medicine, civil, industrial and manufacturing engineering. My students and I have done research in fundamental graphics algorithms, curve and surface modeling, geometry processing for solid modeling and manufacturing, surface and volume triangulations, terrain modeling, genetic algorithms, reverse engineering, NURBS, bio-engineering, knowledge-guided computation and fault-tolerant design.
CURRENT PROJECTS
I am currently working on two projects. One is in 3-D printing and the other in cyber learning. In 3-D printing my team is addressing the issue of object slicing based on a point cloud model of the precise geometry. In cyber learning we are looking into improving the fundamental way learning takes place in an Internet-enabled interconnected world.
BOOKS
The NURBS Book
Les Piegl
Wayne Tiller
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Geometric Modeling
Les Piegl
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Heterogeneous modeling of medical image data using B-spline functions, Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 226(10), 2012, 737-751
It is time to drop the “R” from NURBS, Engineering with Computers, 30(4), 2014, 703-714
Algorithm for the removal of rectangle containment, Computer-Aided Design and Applications, 12(1), 2015, 1-8
Data processing for medial axis computation using B-spline smoothing, Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 14(4), 2014, 041002-1 – 041002-11
Ten challenges in 3D printing, Engineering with Computers, 32(1), 2016, 135-148.
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Dr. Les A. Piegl, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620
