This report describes the Fifth Annual Graph Drawing Contest , held in conjunction with the 1998 Graph Drawing Symposium in Montreal, Canada. The purpose of the contest is to monitor and challenge the current state of the art in graph-drawing technology 4, 5, 6, 7].

Current computer-based design tools for mechanical engineers are not tailored to early stages of design. Most designers use pencil and paper at first, and only input their design into CAD systems after it is nearly complete. The tradeoff between the ease of drawing and the precision of a CAD tool is too great in for engineers who are just sketching out rough designs. My thesis will present a to...

Introduction The artistic tradition of stippling has a long history, particularly in the field of scientific illustration. Stippled drawings are made up of thousands of small ink dots or stipples that combine to give the impression of continuous tone. The artist can control the placement and size of the stipples precisely to delineate particular details and clarify structures that might be lost...

Industrial case studies of successful implementations of combined mechanical and closed-loop control design provide students with meaningful examples of classroom theory. Such a case study on the development of a capstan drive with feedback control for use in optical fiber production is presented in this paper. Optical fiber is manufactured by the draw process, heating and pulling high purity g...