Geometric Modelling

Summary

The first Dagstuhl - seminar on Geometric Modelling was organized by Gerald Farin (Arizona State University), Hans Hagen (Universität Kaiserslautem) and Hartmut Noltemeier (Universität Würzburg). It was a pleasure to note the international acclaim the seminar has found, the 37 participants came from 7 countries and 9 of them came from industry.

Lectures were given at the seminar, covering practically all important aspects of geometric modelling :

• solid modelling
• geometry processing
• feature modelling
• product modelling
• surfacepatches over arbitrary topologies
• blending methods in CAD
• scattered data algorithms
• multisurfaces
• smoothing and fairing algorithms
• NURBS

The discussion between industry and university has proven to be very fruitful. The scientists from industry were able to give many important and practible impulses for new research; in the opposite direction the university researchers have developed many new technologies, solving industrial problems, which may be transfered back to industry.
Everybody was impressed by the quality of the presentations; they acknowledged the importance of such research exchange between the various partners.