Publisher's Synopsis
The mathematical foundation of free form surface representations and constructions is an emerging field covering many interesting research problems and numerous important applications. This book contains selected presentations from the CAGD Conference at Oberwolfach, with new developments of mathematical methods and efficient algorithms for the representation of curves and surfaces. The contributions focus on the following topics: rational splines, scattered data interpolation, multivariate splines, interpolating with geometric constraints, algorithms for graphic representations.