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Data Base Techniques for Pictorial Applications pp 219–232Cite as

The structure of queries on geometric data

  • 3. Geometric Applications
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A geometric object is an abstraction of reality and many of its properties can be studied without direct reference to the absolute coordinates of its elements. We have developed a coding method that uses this fact to simplify the manipulation of vectorized n-dimensional geometric schemes and used it to reduce those manipulations to a small set of basic operations. We have built a subroutine package implementing these operations that works on a workspace extracted from a very simple data base. A pilot project is described in which this package is used in the management of map information for a geometrical data base.

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  1. IBM Scientific Center, Castellana, 4, Madrid, Spain

    J. Jimenez & J. L. Navalón

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Jimenez, J., Navalón, J.L. (1980). The structure of queries on geometric data. In: Blaser, A. (eds) Data Base Techniques for Pictorial Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 81. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-09763-5_11

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