Table of Contents

Parametric Offset Surface Approximation.- Unimodal Properties of Generalized Ball Bases.- Nef Polyhedra: A Brief Introduction.- Complex PDE Surface Generation for Analysis and Manufacture.- Weight Estimation of Rational Bézier Curves and Surfaces.- The Use of Multiple Knots for B-spline Finite Element Approximations to PDE Surfaces.- Geometric Design with Trimmed Surfaces.- The Shape of the Overhauser Spline.- Local Energy Fairing of B-spline Curves.- Integrating Analysis Tools into the Design Process through Constrained Parametric Structures.- Localized Radial Basis Methods Using Rational Triangle Patches.- Repeated Knots in Least Squares Multiquadric Functions.- Stability Concept for Surfaces.- A Quartic Spline Based on a Variational Approach.- A Knowledge-Based System for Geometric Design.- Bézier Representation of Trim Curves.- Control Point Representations of Trigonometrically Specified Curves and Surfaces.- Towards Optimality in Automated Feature Recognition.- Solid Modeling with Constrained Form Features.- A Hybrid Method for Shape-Preserving Interpolation with Curvature-Continuous Quintic Splines.- Scale-Invariant Functionals for Smooth Curves and Surfaces.- The C-Tree: A Dynamically Balanced Spatial Index.- Piecewise Linear Approximation of Trimmed Surfaces.- An Efficient Algorithm for Evaluating Polynomials in the Pòlya Basis.