This volume presents the proceedings of the 7th International Confer ence of the Computer Graphics Society, CG International '89, held at the University of Leeds, UK, June 27-30, 1989. Since 1982 this confer ence has continued to attract high-quality research papers in all aspects of computer graphics and its applications. Originally the conference was held in Japan (1982-1987), but in 1988 was held in Geneva, Switzerland. Future conferences are planned for Singapore in 1990, USA in 1991, Japan in 1992, and Canada in 1993. Recent developments in computer graphics have concentrated on the greater sophistication of image generation techniques; advances in hardware and emphasis on the exploitation of parallelism, integration of robotics and AI techniques for animation, greater integ ration of CAD and CAM in CIM, use of powerful computer graphics techniques to represent complex physical processes (visualization), advances in computational geometry and in the representation and modelling of complex physical and mathematical objects, and improved tools and methods for HC!. These trends and advances are reflected in this present volume. A number of papers deal with important research aspects in many of these areas.
Rae Earnshaw is Professor of Electronic Imaging at the University of Bradford, UK. He is a chartered engineer (CEng) and a chartered Information Technology Professional (CITP).
Prof Earnshaw has authored and edited 40 books on computer graphics, visualisation, multimedia, design and virtual reality, and published over 200 papers in these areas. He is a member of the Advisory Council of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Founding Co-editor of the Springer Journal Virtual Reality, ISSN: 1359-4338 (print version), ISSN: 1434-9957 (electronic version) , Vice-President of the Computer Graphics Society, and the UK representative to IFIP TC5. He was also a Director of Advance Visual Communications plc.