Gerald E. Farin Boeken

This fifth edition has been fully updated to cover the many advances made in CAGD and curve and surface theory since 1997, when the fourth edition appeared. Material has been restructured into theory and applications chapters. The theory material has been streamlined using the blossoming approach; the applications material includes least squares techniques in addition to the traditional interpolation methods. In all other respects, it is, thankfully, the same. This means you get the informal, friendly style and unique approach that has made Curves and Surfaces for A Practical Guide a true classic. The book's unified treatment of all significant methods of curve and surface design is heavily focused on the movement from theory to application. The author provides complete C implementations of many of the theories he discusses, ranging from the traditional to the leading-edge. You'll gain a deep, practical understanding of their advantages, disadvantages, and interrelationships, and in the process you'll see why this book has emerged as a proven resource for thousands of other professionals and academics.

This book emerged from a DoE/NSF-sponsored workshop, held in Tahoe City, California, October 2000. About fifty invited participants presented state-of-the-art research on topics such as: - terrain modeling - multiresolution subdivision - wavelet-based scientific data compression - topology-based visualization - data structures, data organization and indexing schemes for scientific data visualization. All invited papers were carefully refereed, resulting in this collection. The book will be of great interest to researchers, graduate students and professionals dealing with scientific visualization and its applications.

Dieses Buch bietet Studenten mit Nebenfach Mathematik eine praktische Einführung in die lineare Algebra. Großer Wert wird auf geometrische Erklärungen und numerische Anwendungen gelegt. Zahlreiche Beispiele bringen Praxisnähe; auf detaillierte Beweise wird verzichtet. Beide Autoren sind Experten auf dem Gebiet des computergestützten Modellierens; viele Anwendungen kommen aus diesem Gebiet.

Computer Aided Geometric Design (CAGD) stellt die mathematischen Grundlagen für das in der Technik weitverbreitete CAD bereit. Vorlesungen zu diesem Themenbereich gehören heute an allen technisch orientierten Universitäten und Fachhochschulen zum Standard-Angebot. Das Buch liefert eine an der Praxis orientierte, dabei aber mathematisch exakte Einführung und führt den Leser bis an neueste Entwicklungen des Gebietes heran. Aus Besprechungen der amerikanischen Auflage: „Altogether, this book gives a solid introduction to CAGD methods, points out their advantages and disadvantages, can function as a reference book for programmers in CAGD, and is a perfect textbook.“