The 39 papers anticipate the first in a series of biennial international conferences on solid modeling, shape representation, and geometric computation, all of which are procedures important in a wide range of disciplines, including computer graphics, computer aided design, computer vision, medical imaging, and scientific computation. The largest number of them address various ideas in curve and surface modeling, from long-standing issues such as interpolation and approximation to recently popular ideas such as polyhedral and subdivision methods and more specific areas such as blending, deformations, implicitization, and parametrized design. Attracting the second most attention is solid modeling, from such perspectives as inputting models from sketches and from scanned data, subdivision modeling, and trimmed patches. Discussions of applications include polygon mesh refinement in computer graphs, modeling the draping of cloth, generating moulds, and watermarking polygon meshes for security. There is no subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
