A text providing a comprehensive treatment of the basic methods in curve and surface design at an advanced undergraduate/beginning graduate level. The emphasis is on the concepts of Bezier and B-spline methods for curves, rational Bezier and B-spline curves, geometric continuity, spline interpolation, and Coon methods. This edition (second was 1990) includes several new sections and numerical examples, a treatment of the new blossoming principle, and new C programs (all C programs are on the included disk). Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Professor Gerald Farin currently teaches in the computer science and engineering department at Arizona State University. He received his doctoral degree in mathematics from the University of Braunschweig, Germany, in 1979. His extensive CAGD experience includes working as a research mathematician in a computer-aided development for Daimler-Benz, serving on the executive committee of the ASU PRISM project, and speaking at a multitude of symposia and conferences. Farin has authored and edited several books and papers, and he is editor-in-chief of Computer Aided Geometric Design.