There is a great deal of current interest in mathematical methods for representing and manipulating complicated curves and surfaces in a digital computer environment. This edited work is a collection of both short survey papers and long research papers, addressing a number of topics important to development in the field. Among these are 3-D reconstruction, thin plate splines, geometric continuity, image compression, and radial functions. The survey papers focus on several particularly active subareas of approximation theory, including tomography, wavelets, constrained approximation, multivariate splines, approximation of images, and surface compression.
Service collections - their functions, B.E.Kirsop; general introduction
to maintenance methods, J.J.S.Snell; maintenance of bacteria by
freeze-drying, R.H.Rudge; maintenance of bacteria on glass beads at -60C to
-76C, D Jones et al; maintenance of bacteria in gelatin discs, J.J.S.Snell;
maintenance of industrial and marine bacteria and bacteriophages, T.R.Dando
and I.J. Bousfield; low temperature freezing of microorganisms on silica gel,
T.M.Sidyakina; maintenance of anaerobic bacteria, C.S.Impey and B.A.Phillips;
maintenance of phototrophic bacteria, K.A.Malik; maintenance of methanogenic
bacteria, H.Hippe; maintenance of leptospira, S.A.Waitkins; maintenance of
microorganisms by simple methods, K.A.Malik; maintenance of filamentous
fungi, D.Smith; maintenance of yeasts, B.E.Kirsop; maintenance of algae and
protozoa, M.R.McLellan et al; maintenance of parasitic protozoa by
cryopreservation, E.R.James; animal cells, A.Doyle and C.B.Morris;
maintenance of plant tissue cultures, L.A.Withers; appendix 1 -
documentation; appendix 2 - list of suppliers.
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