A Bounding Box is the smallest box that encloses a geometry. There are two common classes of Bounding Boxes that are employed: Oriented Bounding Boxes (OBB), and an Axis-Aligned Bounding Boxes (AABB). Bounding boxes are commonly employed as a cheap way to approximate more complex geometries in a range of applications, including collision detection.
A Bounding Box is the smallest box that encloses a geometry. There are two common classes of Bounding Boxes that are employed: Oriented Bounding Boxes (OBB) and an Axis-Aligned Bounding Boxes (AABB). Bounding boxes are commonly employed as a cheap way to approximate more complex geometries in a range of applications, including collision detection.
A minimum Bounding Box can also be referred to as the minimum bounding or minimum enclosing box.
Reference Books
- Real-Time Collision Detection (Ch. 4) by Christer Ericson (Morgan Kaufmann, 2005)
External References:
- Collision Detection (Wikipedia)
- Bounding Volume (Wikipedia)
- Minimum Bounding Box (Wikipedia)
- Minimum Bounding Box Algorithms (Wikipedia)
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