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From: doug@eris (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: geometry book?
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Date: 15 Apr 88 19:06:45 GMT
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In article <2679@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU> samadani@Shasta.UUCP (Ramin Samadani) writes:
>Every now and then, I come across a problem which involves some geometry.
>For example, I am interested in finding the best ellipse that fits a [...]

Try "A Programmer's Geometry" by Adrian Bowyer and John Woodwark,
pub. Butterworths, copyright 1983.

>things? I am also interested in books which show how to actually do these
>things on the computer. 

It does...in (formatted/indented) Fortran 77.

	Doug Merritt		doug@mica.berkeley.edu (ucbvax!mica!doug)
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