Virtual prototyping technology allows the production of a virtual prototype from a three-dimensional drawing developed in a Computer Aided Design system. This virtual model gives complete information about the product earlier in the development cycle, enabling manufacturing companies to produce high quality products, at low cost and to be marketed faster. However, current virtual prototyping tools do not fully support all stages of the product development cycle, restricting the applicability of concurrent engineering concepts. There is still a lack of interactive 3D software tools to address assembly/disassembly operations and maintenance verifications. For these operations collision detection plays an important role. This book presents the design and implementation of a real time collision detection algorithm for supporting interactive assembly and maintenance simulation of products. Novel concepts and parallel processing techniques are presented that enabled the implementation of an efficient collision detection toolkit. This work should be useful to virtual prototyping, virtual reality and computer graphics researchers in general.

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