Dianne Hansford, Ph. D.
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Tel: 480-703-0263
dianne@farinhansford.com
 

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Publications

Books

  1. G. Farin and D. Hansford. The Geometry Toolbox for Graphics and Modeling, 288 pages, AK Peters, Natick, Massachusetts, 1998. ISBN: 1-56881-074 www.farinhansford.com/books/geometrytoolbox

  2. G. Farin and D. Hansford. The Essentials of CAGD, 229 pages, AK Peters, Natick, Massachusetts, 2000. ISBN: 1-56881-123 www.farinhansford.com/books/essbook/essentials-cagd

  3. G. Farin and D. Hansford. Lineare Algebra: ein geometrischer Zugang, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2003. German translation of The Geometry Toolbox for Graphics and Modeling. ISBN: 3-540-41854-7

  4. G. Farin and D. Hansford. Practical Linear Algebra, A Geometry Toolbox, AK Peters, 2005. ISBN 1-56881-234-5, (2nd edition of The Geometry Toolbox) www.farinhansford.com/books/pla

  5. G. Farin and D. Hansford, Mathematical Principles for Scientific Computing and Visualization, AK Peters, Estimated publication date: May 2008. ISBN: 978-1-56881-321-9. www.farinhansford.com/books/scv

Refereed Articles

  1. G. Farin, D. Hansford, A. Worsey. The singular cases for gamma-spline interpolation, Computer Aided Geometric Design, 7(6), pages 533-546, 1990. pdf

  2. D. Hansford. The neutral case for the min-max triangulation, Computer Aided Geometric Design, 7(5), pages 431-438, 1990. pdf

  3. W. Boehm, D. Hansford. Bézier patches on quadrics, in NURBS for Curve and Surface Design, ed. G. Farin, SIAM, pages 1-14, 1991.

  4. W. Boehm, D. Hansford. Parametric representation of quadric surfaces, Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis, 26(1), pages 191-200, 1991.

  5. D. Hansford, R.E. Barnhill, G. Farin. Curves with quadric boundary precision, Computer Aided Geometric Design, 11(5), pages 519-531, 1994. pdf

  6. G. Farin, D. Hansford. Discrete Coons patches, Computer Aided Geometric Design, 16(7) pages 691-700, 1999. pdf

  7. D. Hansford. Bézier Techniques, in The Handbook of 3D Modeling and Graphics, eds. G. Farin, J. Hoschek, and M.-S. Kim, pp. 75-104, Elsevier, The Netherlands, ISBN 0-444-51104-0, 2001.

  8. D. Hansford, G. Farin. Curve and Surface Constructions, in The Handbook of 3D Modeling and Graphics, eds. G. Farin, J. Hoschek, and M.-S. Kim, pp. 165-188, Elsevier, The Netherlands, ISBN 0-444-51104-0, 2001.

  9. G. Farin, D. Hansford. Shape in Automotive Design, TIES Magazine, The Magazine of Design and Technology in Education. March 2002. www.tiesmagazine.org. pdf

  10. G. Farin, D. Hansford. A permanence principle for shape control, in Computational Geometry: Lectures at the Morningside Center of Mathematics, ed. Ren-Hong Wang, AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Volume 34, pp. 83-87, ISBN 0-8218-2044-3, 2003.

  11. D. Hansford. Review of 3D Computer Graphics A Mathematical Introduction with OpenGL, by Samuel R. Buss, for SIAM Review, vol 46, no 2, 2004.

  12. G. Albrecht, J.P. Bécar, G. Farin, D. Hansford. Détermination de tangentes par l'emploi de coniques d'approximation, Revue Internationale de CFAO et d'informatique graphique, 1(1): 91-103. 2005.

  13. G. Farin, D. Hansford. A practical approach to teaching linear algebra, TIES Magazine, The Magazine of Design and Technology in Education, pp. 42-44, Fall 2005, www.tiesmagazine.org. pdf

  14. J. Zehnder, J. Rowe, A. Razdan, J. Hu, D. Hansford, Using Digital Cloud Photogrammetry to Characterize the Onset and Transition from Shallow to Deep Convection Over Orography, Monthly Weather Review, volume 134, pp. 2527-2545, September 2006.

  15. D. Hansford, D. Collins, Anamorphic 3D Geometry , Computing, volume 79, Nos. 2-4, pp. 211-223, Springer Wien, April 2007. pdf

  16. G. Albrecht, J.P. Bécar, G. Farin, D. Hansford. On the approximation order of tangent estimators, Computer Aided Geometric Design, volume 25, pp 80-95, 2008. pdf

  17. K. Mueller, C. Fuenfzig, D. Hansford, G. Farin, DINUS - Double insertion, non-uniform, stationary subdivision surfaces, submitted to TOGS, in revision, May 2008.

  18. T. Bobach, G. Farin, D. Hansford, G. Umlauf, Natural neighbor extrapolation using ghost points, To appear in CAD, Spring 2009.

 

Conference Proceedings

  1. R.E. Barnhill, G. Farin, D. Hansford. Adaptive Surface Triangulations, Computer Aided Geometric Design, eds. P. Kaklis and N. Sapidis, National Technical University of Athens, pages 19-30, 1996.

  2. G. Albrecht, J.P. Bécar, G. Farin, D. Hansford, Une methode d'ordre 2 pour l'estimation de tangentes, Actes des Journees de Modelisation Geometrique, Poitiers, GTMG, 2005.

  3. A. Razdan, J. Schwartz, M. Tocheri, D. Hansford, Digital 3D Facial Reconstruction for George Washington, Proceedings of SPIE 6056, 11 pages, SPIE Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA, 2006.

  4. Anusha Sridaran, Dianne Hansford, Kanav Kahol, Sethuraman Panchanathan, Surface Interrogation Methods for Haptic Rendering of Virtual Objects, World Haptics Conference, pp. 237-242, Second Joint EuroHaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (WHC'07), 2007. pdf

  5. T. Bobach, G. Farin, D. Hansford, G. Umlauf, Discrete Harmonic Functions from Local Coordinates, Mathematics of Surfaces XII, Sheffield, UK, September 2007. pdf

  6. K. Mueller, C. Fuenfzig, G. Farin, and D. Hansford, PNG1 Patches for Tangent Continuous Surfaces on the GPU, Graphics Interface, pp. 119-226, 2008. pdf

 

Theses

  1. D. Hansford. Gamma spline interpolation, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Arizona State University, Advisor: R. E. Barnhill, 1989. (Note: Results published in Farin, Hansford, Worsey '89.)

  2. D. Hansford. Boundary curves with quadric precision for a tangent continuous scattered data interpolant, Ph.D. Thesis, Computer Science, Arizona State University, Advisor: R.E. Barnhill, 1991. (Note: Results published in Hansford, Barnhill, Farin '94.)