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Problems involving meshes and other geometry representations, and manipulating, transforming, or extracting information from them; algorithms for solving geometrical problems such as computing intersections, filling holes, triangulating a shape, etc.

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Given two arbitrary surfaces, what is the accurate and quite fast algo to find collision wit...

A key search phrase is "collision detection." You may find some references at this MO posting, "Intersection of Polyhedra." And here is a more recent reference: Jiménez, Juan J., and Rafael J. Seg …
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Detect collision for non axis-aligned bounding boxes

Write two functions: (1) point in 3D box, and (2) segment intersect rectangle in 3D. Point in box is a conjunction of six left-of-plane checks. For (2), solve for the point of intersection between the …
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Computational Geometry - Triangulation

What it means to "triangulate complex 3D objects" is not unambiguous. Just one possible interpretation: You have a 3D polygon in space, and you want to triangulate that. This is NP-hard: Barequet, …
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How can I check if a polygon can completely contain a circle of a certain radius?

This is likely more complicated than you would prefer, but: Compute the medial axis, which immediately yields the largest disks that fit inside the polygon: their centers are vertices (degree $\ge 3$) …
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