Farin and Hansford offer an excellent resource for those who need to apply graphical methods to visual computing applications, such as CAD/CAM, .... The authors cover a very comprehensive set of important topics ..... The reader will find a very rich set of examples, figures, and explanations....

--F. H. Wild III
University of Rhode Island
in CHOICE Current Reviews for Academic Libraries
June 2001

... Despite its easy-to-understand and graphic-driven presentation style, this book actually covers most of the mature and relevant mathematical elements that one would expect to see in a typical, more advanced book on the topic of CAGD. This demonstrates that the authors have a profound mastery on the entire field of CAGD, as well as a unique skill to present abstract, oftentimes tedius mathematics intuitively. ...
I therefore strongly recommend this book to college students, graduate students, engineering practitioners, or anyone who wants to gain a comprehensive knowledge on geometric concepts, ....

--Hong Qin
Department of Comp. Sci.
State Univ. of NY at Stony Brook
in Computer Aided Design
Vol 35, 2003

This book does a really good job at presenting the concepts and methodologies of CAGD in a manner that is easy to learn from. You leave this book with a complete understanding of the how and why of the topics it presents. ...

--Brad Miller
on amazon.com
June 2003