Dianne Carol Hansford (born 1964) is an American

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known for her research on

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es in

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and for her textbooks on

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, and the mathematics behind

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. She is a lecturer at

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in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, and the cofounder of a startup based on her research, 3D Compression Technologies.

Education and career

Hansford is a 1986 graduate of the

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. She went to Arizona State University for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1988 and completing her Ph.D. in 1991. Her dissertation, ''Boundary Curves with Quadric Precision for a Tangent, Continuous Scattered Data Interpolant'', was supervised by Robert E. Barnhill. She became a

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in German, doing postdoctoral research at the Technical University Darmstadt, and then worked in the computing industry for several years, including co-founding 3D Compression Technologies in 2000, before returning to Arizona State as a research scientist in 2004. She became an associate research professor in 2006 and a lecturer in computing in 2016.

Selected publications

Hansford's books, coauthored with Arizona State University professor Gerald Farin, include: *''The Geometry Toolbox for Graphics and Modeling'' (

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, 1998); revised as ''Practical Linear Algebra: A Geometry Toolbox'' (A K Peters, 2005; 4th ed.,

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, 2021) *''The Essentials of CAGD'' (CRC Press, 2000) *''Mathematical Principles for Scientific Computing and Visualization'' (A K Peters, 2008) She is also the author of a highly cited paper on

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