Designed to provide tools for independent study, this book contains student-tested mathematical exercises joined with MATLAB programming exercises. Most chapters open with a review followed by theoretical and programming exercises, with detailed solutions provided for all problems including programs. Many of the MATLAB exercises are presented as Russian dolls: each question improves and completes the previous program and results are provided to validate the intermediate programs. The book offers useful MATLAB commands, advice on tables, vectors, matrices and basic commands for plotting. It contains material on eigenvalues and eigenvectors and important norms of vectors and matrices including perturbation theory; iterative methods for solving nonlinear and linear equations; polynomial and piecewise polynomial interpolation; Bezier curves; approximations of functions and integrals and more. The last two chapters considers ordinary differential equations including two point boundary value problems, and deal with finite difference methods for some partial differential equations. The format is designed to assist students working alone, with concise Review paragraphs, Math Hint footnotes on the mathematical aspects of a problem and MATLAB Hint footnotes with tips on programming.

TheSeventhInternationalConferenceonMathematicalMethodsforCurvesand SurfacestookplaceJune26-July 1,2008, inTonsberg, Norway. Theearlier conferences in the series took place in Oslo (1988), Biri (1991), Ulvik (1994), Lillehammer(1997), Oslo(2000), andTromso(2004). Theconferencegathered 165participants fromalmost30countries who presenteda total of129talks. Thisincludesnineinvitedtalksandsevenmini-symposia. Thisbookcontains28originalarticlesbasedontalkspresentedattheconf- ence. Thetopicsrangefrommathematicalanalysisofvariousmethodstoprac- calimplementationonmoderngraphicsprocessingunits. Thepapersre?ectthe newestdevelopmentsinthese?eldsandalsopointtothelatestliterature. The papershavebeensubjecttotheusualpeerreviewprocess, andwethankboth theauthorsandthereviewersfortheirhardworkandhelpfulcollaboration. Wewishtothankthosewhohavesupportedandhelpedorganizetheconf- ence. Firstandforemostitisapleasuretoacknowledgethegenerous?nancial support from the Department of Informatics and the Centre of Mathematics forApplications(CMA)attheUniversityofOslo, andtheResearchCouncilof Norway. WewouldalsoliketothankAndrewMcMurryforhishelpwithwith technicalmatters, andSaraMorkenforhelpwiththeregistration. November2009 Theeditors Organization Organizing Commitee and Editors MortenDaehlen UniversityofOslo, Norway MichaelFloater UniversityofOslo, Norway TomLyche UniversityofOslo, Norway Jean-LouisMerrien INSAdeRennes, France KnutMorken UniversityofOslo, Norway LarryL. Schumaker VanderbiltUniversity, USA Invited Speakers Jean-DanielBoissonnat, SophiaAntipolis, France MassimoFornasier, Linz, Austria TomHughes, Austin, USA JorgPeters, Gainesville, USA RagniPiene, Oslo, Norway RobertSchaback, Gottingen, Germany PeterSchroder, Caltech, USA JonathanShewchuk, Berkeley, USA JoachimWeickert, Saarland, Germany Mini-Symposia Organizers OlegDavydov, Glasgow, UK TorDokken, Oslo, Norway BinHan, Edmonton, Canada ChuckHansen, SaltLakeCity, USA RimvydasKrasauskas, Vilnius, Lithuania TrondKvamsdal, Trondheim, Norway CarlaManni, Rome, Italy Sponsoring Institutions DepartmentofInformatics, UniversityofOslo CentreofMathematicsforApplications, UniversityofOslo ResearchCouncilofNorway Table of Contents MMCS 2008 Partial Di?erential Equations for Interpolation and Compression of Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Egil Bae and Joachim Weickert Construction of Rational Curves with Rational Rotation-Minimizing Frames via Mob ] ius Transformations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Michael Barton, ? Bert Juttl ] er, and Wenping Wang Fat Arcs for Implicitly De?ned Curves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Szilvia B ela and Bert Juttl ] er Geometric Properties of the Adaptive Delaunay Tessellation. . . . . . . . . . . 41 Tom Bobach, Alexandru Constantiniu, Paul Steinmann, and Georg Umlauf Quadrangular Parameterization for Reverse Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 David Bommes, Tobias Vossemer, and Leif Kobbelt A Comparison of Three Commodity-Level Parallel Architectures: Multi-core CPU, Cell BE and GPU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Andr e Rigland Brodtkorb and Trond Runar Hagen Mean Distance from a Curve to Its Control Polygon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Jesu s Carnicer and Jorge Delgado Compactly Supported Splines with Tension Properties on a Three-Direction Mesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .