1 Image Synthesis -- Image Synthesis: Optical Identity or Pictorial Communication -- A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Coherent Ray-Tracing -- High Level Descriptions for 3D Stochastic Models -- Frame Buffer Algorithms for Stochastic Models -- Animating Lights and Shadows -- An Analysis and Algorithm for Filling Propagation -- 2 Image Processing -- Non-Rigid Body Motion -- Selection of Segment Similarity Measures for Hierarchical Picture Segmentation -- Computer Analysis of Cardiac Wall Motion Asynchrony -- Multi-Robot Assembly of IC's -- A Computerized System for Spot Detection and Analysis of Two-Dimensional Electrophoresis Images -- Hologram-like Transmission of Pictures -- 3 Geometric Modelling -- CSG and Ray Tracing Using Functional Primitives -- Geometric Continuity with Interpolating Bezier Curves -- An Intuitive Approach to Geometric Continuity for Parametric Curves and Surfaces -- Octree Data Structures and Creation by Stacking -- 4 Computer Animation -- ANIMENGINE: An Engineering Animation System -- Dynamics for Animation of Characters with Deformable Surfaces -- Using Dynamic Analysis to Animate Articulated Bodies such as Humans and Robots -- Towards an Integrated View of 3-D Computer Animation -- Controlling Evolution and Motion Using the CINEMIRA-2 Animation Sublanguage -- Computer Animation in Distance Teaching -- 5 User Interface -- The Interactive Planning Work Station: A Graphics-Based UNIX Tool for Application Users and Developers -- The Higgens UIMS and its Efficient Implementation of Undo -- Graphics Interaction in Databases -- Interface Abstractions for an naplps Page Creation System -- Colour Coding Scales and Computer Graphics -- 6 CAD/CAM -- An Innovative User Interface for Microcomputer-Based Computer-Aided Design -- A Geometric Modeller for Turbomachinery Applications -- Low Cost Geometric Modelling System for CAM -- The CADME Approach to the Interface of Solid Modellers -- 7 Artificial Intelligence -- Generative Design in Architecture Using an Expert System -- Knowledge Engineering Application in Image Processing -- Heuristic Rules for Visualization -- 8 Applications -- Computer Graphics for Multivariate Data -- A Graphics Interface for Interactive Simulation of Packet-Switched Networks -- Design and Implementation of an Interactive Route Editor -- Business Graphics and the Stakeholder Approach: An Exploratory Field Experiment -- An Integrated System for Printing and Publishing Applications -- Project Management Using Graphics -- 9 Geographic Information and Databases -- How Map Designers can Represent their Ideas in Thematic Maps: Effective User Interfaces for Thematic Map Design -- Challenges in the Application of Graphics Technology to the Management of Geographic Information -- An Image Management Kernel for the Design of Relational and Pictorial Data Bases -- The Scientific and Technical Issues in Integrating Remotely Sensed Imagery with Geocoded Data Bases -- Author Index.