KETpic-Matlab toolbox for LaTeX high-quality graphical artwork in educational materials on Bézier curve algorithms at a master level

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dc.contributor.authorGálvez, Akemi
dc.contributor.authorTakato, Setsuo
dc.contributor.authorKaneko, Masataka
dc.contributor.authorDel Ser, Javier
dc.contributor.authorIglesias, Andrés
dc.contributor.editorTorre, Carmelo M.
dc.contributor.editorTaniar, David
dc.contributor.editorMurgante, Beniamino
dc.contributor.editorApduhan, Bernady O.
dc.contributor.editorGervasi, Osvaldo
dc.contributor.editorStankova, Elena
dc.contributor.editorRocha, Ana Maria A.C.
dc.contributor.editorMisra, Sanjay
dc.contributor.editorBorruso, Giuseppe
dc.contributor.editorCuzzocrea, Alfredo
dc.contributor.institutionIA
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionPublisher Copyright: © Springer International Publishing AG 2017.
dc.description.abstractThis paper introduces a new KETpic-Matlab toolbox to generate LATEX-embedded high-quality graphical artwork about the main algorithms for Bézier curves and related topics. The package has been implemented by the authors as a supporting middleware tool to generate educational materials for a computer-aided geometric design (CAGD) course at an advanced level (typically a Master/PhD course; even a senior course in some engineering degrees). Its primary goal is to instill geometric intuition in our students and help them develop critical thinking based on geometric reasoning for problem solving. We also aim at providing the instructors of such courses with a computer library to produce high-quality graphics for educational materials with a seamless integration into LATEX. In this regard, all graphical objects are encoded as plain LATEX-readable source code that yields nice pictures after standard LATEX compilation. The application of this package to generate educational materials is discussed through six illustrative examples of interesting properties of the Bézier curves. They show that our package is very easy to use, supports many different graphical options, and fosters students’ creative geometric thinking with very little effort.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was kindly supported by Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI Grant Numbers 15K01037, 15K00944, and 16K01152, the Computer Science National Program of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Project Ref. #TIN2012-30768, Toho University, the University of Cantabria, Tecnalia Research & Innovation, the University of the Basque Country, and the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM).
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dc.identifier.citationGálvez , A , Takato , S , Kaneko , M , Del Ser , J & Iglesias , A 2017 , KETpic-Matlab toolbox for LaTeX high-quality graphical artwork in educational materials on Bézier curve algorithms at a master level . in C M Torre , D Taniar , B Murgante , B O Apduhan , O Gervasi , E Stankova , A M A C Rocha , S Misra , G Borruso & A Cuzzocrea (eds) , Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2017 - 17th International Conference, 2017 . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) , vol. 10407 LNCS , Springer Verlag , pp. 301-316 , 17th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2017 , Trieste , Italy , 3/07/17 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62401-3_23
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dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-319-62401-3_23
dc.identifier.isbn9783319624006
dc.identifier.issn0302-9743
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85026781064&partnerID=8YFLogxK
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer Verlag
dc.relation.ispartofComputational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2017 - 17th International Conference, 2017
dc.relation.ispartofseriesLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
dc.relation.projectIDTecnalia Research & Innovation
dc.relation.projectIDToho University
dc.relation.projectIDJapan Society for the Promotion of Science, KAKEN, 15K00944-15K01037-16K01152
dc.relation.projectIDMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad, MINECO, 2012-30768
dc.relation.projectIDEuskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, EHU
dc.relation.projectIDUniversidad de Cantabria, UC
dc.relation.projectIDBasque Center for Applied Mathematics, BCAM
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.subject.keywordsBézier curve
dc.subject.keywordsDe Casteljau's algorithm
dc.subject.keywordsEducational materials
dc.subject.keywordsGraphical artwork
dc.subject.keywordsMatlab toolbox
dc.subject.keywordsTheoretical Computer Science
dc.subject.keywordsGeneral Computer Science
dc.titleKETpic-Matlab toolbox for LaTeX high-quality graphical artwork in educational materials on Bézier curve algorithms at a master levelen
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