TheSeventhInternationalConferenceonMathematicalMethodsforCurvesand SurfacestookplaceJune26-July 1,2008,inTønsberg,Norway. Theearlier conferences in the series took place in Oslo (1988),Biri (1991), Ulvik (1994), Lillehammer(1997),Oslo(2000),andTromsø(2004). Theconferencegathered 165participants fromalmost30countries who presenteda total of129talks. Thisincludesnineinvitedtalksandsevenmini-symposia. Thisbookcontains28originalarticlesbasedontalkspresentedattheconf- ence. Thetopicsrangefrommathematicalanalysisofvariousmethodstoprac- calimplementationonmoderngraphicsprocessingunits. Thepapersre?ectthe newestdevelopmentsinthese?eldsandalsopointtothelatestliterature. The papershavebeensubjecttotheusualpeerreviewprocess,andwethankboth theauthorsandthereviewersfortheirhardworkandhelpfulcollaboration. Wewishtothankthosewhohavesupportedandhelpedorganizetheconf- ence. Firstandforemostitisapleasuretoacknowledgethegenerous?nancial support from the Department of Informatics and the Centre of Mathematics forApplications(CMA)attheUniversityofOslo,andtheResearchCouncilof Norway. WewouldalsoliketothankAndrewMcMurryforhishelpwithwith technicalmatters,andSaraMørkenforhelpwiththeregistration. November2009 Theeditors Organization Organizing Commitee and Editors MortenDæhlen UniversityofOslo,Norway MichaelFloater UniversityofOslo,Norway TomLyche UniversityofOslo,Norway Jean-LouisMerrien INSAdeRennes,France KnutMørken UniversityofOslo,Norway LarryL. Schumaker VanderbiltUniversity,USA Invited Speakers Jean-DanielBoissonnat,SophiaAntipolis,France MassimoFornasier,Linz,Austria TomHughes,Austin,USA JörgPeters,Gainesville,USA RagniPiene,Oslo,Norway RobertSchaback,Göttingen,Germany PeterSchröder,Caltech,USA JonathanShewchuk,Berkeley,USA JoachimWeickert,Saarland,Germany Mini-Symposia Organizers OlegDavydov,Glasgow,UK TorDokken,Oslo,Norway BinHan,Edmonton,Canada ChuckHansen,SaltLakeCity,USA RimvydasKrasauskas,Vilnius,Lithuania TrondKvamsdal,Trondheim,Norway CarlaManni,Rome,Italy Sponsoring Institutions DepartmentofInformatics,UniversityofOslo CentreofMathematicsforApplications,UniversityofOslo ResearchCouncilofNorway Table of Contents MMCS 2008 Partial Di?erential Equations for Interpolation and Compression of Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Egil Bae and Joachim Weickert Construction of Rational Curves with Rational Rotation-Minimizing Frames via Mob ¨ ius Transformations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Michael Barton, ? Bert Juttl ¨ er, and Wenping Wang Fat Arcs for Implicitly De?ned Curves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Szilvia B´ ela and Bert Juttl ¨ er Geometric Properties of the Adaptive Delaunay Tessellation. . . . . . . . . . . 41 Tom Bobach, Alexandru Constantiniu, Paul Steinmann, and Georg Umlauf Quadrangular Parameterization for Reverse Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 David Bommes, Tobias Vossemer, and Leif Kobbelt A Comparison of Three Commodity-Level Parallel Architectures: Multi-core CPU, Cell BE and GPU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Andr´ e Rigland Brodtkorb and Trond Runar Hagen Mean Distance from a Curve to Its Control Polygon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Jesu ´s Carnicer and Jorge Delgado Compactly Supported Splines with Tension Properties on a Three-Direction Mesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .