This state-of-the-art text explores developments in geometric modeling, product modeling and their applications. In particular, it looks at the means by which product geometry emerges from the conceptual stages of design, and the use of geometric reasoning for applications downstream of design, including manufacture ands assembly. Much existing design research is either totally geometry based or totally non-geometric, and the interface between the two areas is of intense interest to industry, as well as being crucial for the successful development of integrated systems for design and...

"Menagerie" is:

""A beautiful abomination clothed in a skin of steel and silicon.""

""It's survival of the fittest, the way it should be. The way it has to be now.""

""And I was silent in the face of the Lord, as I had forgotten my other question.""

""He felt her passion coming through in waves, crashing against the shores of his paralyzed mind.""

""The bare wooden steps creaked and moaned as I slinked down, sliding along the right wall, penlight wavering uncontrollably.""

"Menagerie" is:

A hodgepodge of dreams and delusions, nightmares and fantasies. It's raw,...