19 papers presented by international experts give a state-of-the-art survey of the relevant problems and issues in modeling, CAD/CAM, scientific visualization, and computational geometry.
The following topics are treated:
• surface design and fairing
• subdivision schemes
• variational design
• NURBS
• reverse engineering
• physically-based modelling
• medical imaging
Gerald Farin
CAD/CAM Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) Nurbs Spline Splines algorithms calculus computational geometry geometric modelling geometry modeling programming visualization data structures
"... gives a good review of the actual state of research in the field of Geometric Modelling. Therefore this book will mainly be used by researchers in this field.” Simulation News Europe, 26/1999
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