| SYNAPS: A LIBRARY FOR DEDICATED APPLICATIONS IN SYMBOLIC NUMERIC COMPUTING (2009) | |||||||||||||||
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| Abstract. We present an overview of the open source library synaps. We describe some of the representative algorithms of the library and illustrate them on some explicit computations, such as solving polynomials and computing geometric information on implicit curves and surfaces. Moreover, we describe the design and the techniques we have developed in order to handle a hierarchy of generic and specialized data-structures and routines, based on a view mechanism. This allows us to construct dedicated plugins, which can be loaded easily in an external tool. Finally, we show how the design of the library allows us to to embed the algebraic operations, as a dedicated plugin, to the external geometric modeler axel. Key words. symbolic-numeric computation, software AMS(MOS) subject classifications. Primary 1234, 5678, 9101112. The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the software library synaps 1. It is an open source project, the objective of which is to provide a coherent and efficient library for symbolic and numeric computations. It implements data-structures and classes for manipulating basic algebraic | |||||||||||||||
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