Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) by Hanan Samet

by Hanan Samet

The book includes a thorough introduction; a comprehensive survey of multidimensional (including spatial) and metric data structures and algorithms; and implementation details for the most useful data structures. Along with hundreds of worked exercises and hundreds of illustrations, the result is a valuable reference tool for professionals in many areas, including computer graphics and visualization, databases, geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial databases, game programming, image processing and computer vision, pattern recognition, solid modelling and computational geometry, similarity retrieval and multimedia databases, VLSI Design, and search aspects of bioinformatics.

Genres: Algorithms, Technical, Computation, Technology, Programming

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Nick Black · Rating 5 out of 5]

truly a glorious book
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wow, this is a 300-pound black mamba she-bitch pisscutter for sure. no two-day read right here!
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found in a reference on Z-curves, which are pretty much the hotness

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mix of breadth and depth of topics; some topics are way too deep (and I've skipped a bunch), others not covered at all - maybe because this space is moving so quickly. Overall very good.

[Oleksandr Nikitin · Rating 5 out of 5]

a rather comprehensive handbook. with examples and explanations. there should be more books like this.