Curve and Surface Design: Saint-Malo, 1999

Two new volumes of carefully refereed and edited papers on the most current developments in the theory and applications of curves and surfaces.These two volumes contain a selection of papers presented at the Saint-Malo Conference on Approximation Theory in July 1999. Each contains several invited survey papers written by experts in the field, along with contributed research papers. They will be of great interest to mathematicians, engineers, and computer scientists working in the fields of Approximation Theory, Computer-Aided Geometric Design (CAGD), Computer Graphics, Numerical Analysis, CAD/CAM, and application areas. Curve and Surface Design includes the following topics: B-bases

canal surfaces

conics

curvature

discrete fairing

free form surfaces

G2-splines

highlight lines

involute curves

multisided patches

NURBs and NURPs

offsets

ray tracing

ruled surfaces

sculptured surfaces

segmentation methods

shape preservation

texture

voronoi diagrams