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The Mathematics of Surfaces VII
Edited by Tim Goodman and Ralph Martin

Proceedings of the seventh IMA Mathematics of Surfaces Conference, held in Dundee, UK, September 1996.

Contents
Modelling physical fields for interrogative visualization, C.L. Bajaj
CAD: master or servant of engineering? A.A. Ball
The PDE method in geometric and functional design, M.I.G. Bloor and M.J. Wilson
Applications of multiresolution surface, T.D. DeRose
Principal surfaces, H. Pottmann and M.G. Wagner
Sparse filter banks for binary subdivision schemes, J. Warren
Surface intersection loop destruction, A.K. Zundel and T.W. Sederberg
Polyhedral metrics in surface reconstruction: tight triangulations, L. Alboul and R. van Damme
A geometrical design handle for rational triangular Bézier patches, G. Albrecht
Spline surface fitting of rank deficient problems: a natural solution, I.J. Anderson and C.K. Pink
On systems of functions satisfying hodograph properties, J.M. Carnicer, M.S. Floater and J. M. Pena
Nets with plane silhouettes II, W.L.F. Degen
Quadric surfaces: a survey with new results, M. Froumentin and C. Chaillou
Shape modification of Gregory patches, R. Hall and G. Mullineux
Methods of surface fairing of spline surfaces within shipbuilding, A. Ives-Smith and I. Applegarth
Linear convexity conditions for parametric tensor-product Bézier surface patches, B. Jüttler
Discrete fairing, L. Kobbelt
Shape control and modification of rational cubic B-spline curves, C. Liu and A.A. Ball
Data reduction for reverse engineering, R.R. Martin, I.A. Stroud and A.D. Marshall
Interpolation of open B-spline curves by recursive subdivision schemes, A. Nasri
Smooth blending of basic surfaces using trivariate box splines, J. Peters and M. Wittman
Classification and characterization of supercyclides, M.J. Pratt
Computation of medial curves on surfaces, T. Rausch, F.-E. Wolter and O. Sniehotta
Fast solution of the thin plate spline equation, M.A. Sabin
Surfaces for the visualization of scientific data preserving monotonicity, M. Sarfraz, S. Butt, and M. Z. Hussain
Estimation of curvatures from planar point data, R.M. Tookey and A.A. Ball
Modelling natural shapes with a "nearly rectangular" model, R. Travis
Constructing GC^k continuous surfaces using bi-polynomial patches for a polygonal hole problem, J. Zhou and V.K.H. Lau

ISBN 1-874728-12-7, hardback, 528 pages, 199 diagrams, 1997  £90.00/$145.00

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