Twenty full papers and ten short papers from the June 2006 conference present recent research on shape matching and retrieval, modeling with implicit surfaces, and various issues of shape analysis, representation, and processing. The contributors evaluate mesh segmentation algorithms, propose a method for finding distinctive features of a shape, deform piecewise linear 3D curves with constant length constraint, and develop degree reduction strategies for NURBS symbolic computation on curves. Other topics include hardware rendering of 3D geometry with elevation maps, a fast particle system framework for interactive implicit modeling, and an interactive environment to edit and repair triangle meshes. No subject index is provided. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
