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Curves and Surfaces for CAGD, Fourth Edition: A Practical Guide (Computer Science and Scientific Computing) - Hardcover
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This unified treatment of curve and surface design concepts is the Fourth Edition of the popular text, Curves and Surfaces for Computer-Aided Geometric Design, Third Edition (Academic Press, 1992). Assuming only a background in calculus and basic linear algebra, this revised and updated classic is highly accessible and should be of interest to a wide audience; from computer graphics hobbyists to software developers for CAD/CAM systems. The authors informal style makes this book very reader-friendly, and the IBM disk included in the back of the book will allow the user to gain first-hand experience with the concepts as they are explained.
This book focuses on Bezier and B-spline methods for curves, rational Bezier and B-spline curves, geometric continuity, spline interpolation, and Coons methods. In this Fourth Edition, the content has been thoroughly revised and updated to include a newchapter on recursive subdivision, new material on nonrectangular topology, surface faceting, stereo lithography, and new sections on triangulations and scattered data interpolants. The disk provided in the back of the book has also been updated to include all of the data sets and the C code used in the book.
Covers tensor product Bezier surfaces
Includes a chapter on recursive subdivisions
Incorporates new material on surface faceting, stereo lithography, and nonrectangular topology
Provides many C programs and data sets on the IBM disk included with the book
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About the Author
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.
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Curves and Surfaces for Computer-Aided Geometric Design : A Practical Guide
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Thus. Scarce w/ the original floppy disk of C programs, still sealed in its publisher pouch. Near Fine. Unmarked. Previous owner name to front free endpaper. First Edition, First Thus, 1997 (Fourth Edition, First Printing). Academic Press, San Diego. Hardcover: black boards w/ gold lettering, corners sharp. Binding tight, solid & square. A few tiny white flecks to front board. No jacket as issued. Clean & bright. Acid-free paper. 429 pp. 6.75 x 10 in (4to). Illustrated w/ figures and diagrams throughout. Exercises, index. Computer Science and Scientific Computing series; Chapter 1 by Pierre Bezier, Chapters 11 and 22 by Wolfgang Boehm. No returns if the disk seal is opened, or the disk is missing or used. Ships in a box, quickly & w/care. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Gerald Farin's Curves and Surfaces for Computer Aided Geometric Design: A Practical Guide, Fourth Edition, published by Academic Press of San Diego in 1997 and scarce today w/ its original floppy disk of C programs still sealed, sets out the mathematics behind CAD/CAM software, computer graphics and industrial surface design. Farin writes for engineers, programmers and students, pairing each method w/ implementation notes, exercises and an index. The book opens w/ "P. Bezier: How a Simple System Was Born," Pierre Bezier's own account of the curve system he developed for Renault's UNISURF. Farin then works through points and affine maps, the de Casteljau algorithm, the Bernstein form of a Bezier curve, polynomial interpolation, spline curves in Bezier form, cubic spline interpolation, B-splines and geometric continuity, w/ two chapters on differential geometry by Wolfgang Boehm and later chapters on conic sections, rational curves and surfaces. Illustrated w/ figures and diagrams throughout, the fourth edition is reported to add material on recursive subdivision, surface faceting, stereolithography, triangulations and scattered data interpolation. Farin earned his doctorate at the Technical University of Braunschweig under Wolfgang Boehm, worked on the CAD/CAM team at Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart, and taught at the University of Utah before joining Arizona State University in 1987, where he worked for 29 years. He served for two decades as co-editor-in-chief of the journal Computer Aided Geometric Design. The companion disk is understood to hold C programs and data sets for the book's algorithms; copies offered today rarely retain it. Seller Inventory # C2NF-ES110526B7