Scene analysis and geometric homology
Henry H. Crapo, J Ryan · 1986
During the last 10-12 years there has been a dramatic revival of interest in applied geometric problems. Geometers have reconsidered a number of questions in infinitesimal mechanics, questions treated by J.C. Maxwell and L. Cremona [6, 12, 13] in 1864-70, further developed under the banner of graphical statics [7, 11], but left largely untouched since the end of the nineteenth century. At the same time, computer scientists have come to recognize that the tools of graphical statics and of applied projective geometry are fundamental to research in scene analysis.