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T1 KETpic-Matlab toolbox for LaTeX high-quality graphical artwork in educational materials on Bézier curve algorithms at a master level
A1 Gálvez, Akemi
A1 Takato, Setsuo
A1 Kaneko, Masataka
A1 Del Ser, Javier
A1 Iglesias, Andrés
A2 Torre, Carmelo M.
A2 Taniar, David
A2 Murgante, Beniamino
A2 Apduhan, Bernady O.
A2 Gervasi, Osvaldo
A2 Stankova, Elena
A2 Rocha, Ana Maria A.C.
A2 Misra, Sanjay
A2 Borruso, Giuseppe
A2 Cuzzocrea, Alfredo
AB This 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.
PB Springer Verlag
SN 9783319624006
SN 0302-9743
YR 2017
FD 2017
LA eng
NO Gálvez , 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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NO This 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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