Otfried Cheong is a German computer scientist working in computational geometry, based at KAIST in South Korea since 2005 and formerly known as Otfried Schwarzkopf. He earned his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin in 1992 under Helmut Alt before holding positions at several universities in Europe and Asia. He is a co-author of the widely used textbook Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications and created Ipe, a vector graphics editor built for producing precise technical illustrations for scientific papers. He was recognized as an ACM Distinguished Member in 2017.
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Otfried Cheong (Korean: 오트프리드 정; formerly Otfried Schwarzkopf) is a German computational geometer working in South Korea at KAIST. He is known as one of the authors of the widely used computational geometry textbook Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications (with Mark de Berg, Marc van Kreveld, and Mark Overmars) and as the developer of Ipe, a vector graphics editor.
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