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At the conceptual stage of design, designers have only vague ideas of initial shapes that they gradually refine. A tool that supports conceptual design should capture such imprecise features but current CAD systems that are based on precise geometry and topology information cannot satisfy this requirement. This paper presents the representation, construction and display approaches for fuzzy complex shapes. We also discuss techniques for indexing and retrieving of fuzzy shapes in an object relational database with a fuzzy processing module.
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Zhang, J., Pham, B., Chen, P. (2002). Modelling and Indexing of Fuzzy Complex Shapes. In: Zhou, X., Pu, P. (eds) Visual and Multimedia Information Management. VDB 2002. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 88. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35592-4_28
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