The series of books edited or co-edited by Professor Larry One of 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

This volume documents the results and presentations, related to aspects of geometric design, of the Second International Conference on Curves and Surfaces, held in Chamonix in 1993. The papers represent directions for future research and development in many areas of application. From the table of contents: - Object Oriented Spline Software - An Introduction to Pade Approximations - Zonoidal Surfaces - Projective Blossoms and Derivatives - Piecewise Polynomial Approximation of Spheres - A Geometrical Approach to Interpolation on Quadric Surfaces