Applying MATLAB to Computer Graphics and CAGD. Application to a Visualization Problem in the Automotive Industry.

Computer graphics are usually achieved by using some traditional programming languages (Fortran, Pascal, C, etc.). In this paper an extensive use of the general-purpose numerical computation programs (NCPs) in the computer graphics field is proposed instead of. The paper describes the main advantages of this kind of programs, and several examples of how they can be successfully applied to computer graphics and visualization. Moreover, the paper briefly introduces several functions and commands developed by the authors, which will be successfully applied to solve a visualization problem coming from the automotive industry.