The 18th International Conference on Geometry and Graphics. Politecnico di Milano 3 - 7 August 2018 - 40th Anniversary - BOOK OF ABSTRACTS

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE - OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT We are glad to announce that ICGG 2018, the 18th International Conference on Geometry and Graphics, will be held at the Politecnico di Milano on August 3-7, 2018. It will start with Opening Ceremony at the Triennale di Milano, and will end with Closing Ceremony at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci. The Conference is organized biannually at different venues around the world, under the auspices of the International Society for Geometry and Graphics (ISGG). The spectrum ranges from fundamental research to geometric real-world applications, and education. Therefore, the conference aims at providing a forum for presentation and discussion of both academic and industrial research involving theoretical and applied geometry and graphics as well as other related fields. The 18th edition is organized at the Politecnico di Milano, by the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies DASTU. Politecnico di Milano is an academic community dealing with Architecture, Urban Studies, Engineering, and Design, then the Conference scope is deeply consistent with its cultural goals. Pure and applied, analogue and digital Geometry and Graphics are, indeed, of the greatest importance in our research/education activities and curricula, providing our basic operational language and supporting our specialized disciplinary semantics. The official language is English. Conference webpage: www.icgg2018.polimi.it DEDICATION AND LOGO As also the Conference Logo tries to synthesize, we liked to dedicate this conference to Leonardo Da Vinci, genius among the greatest showing the widest power of Geometry and Graphics in investigation and creativity between Science and Art, and to Giulio Natta, professor at the Politecnico di Milano and Nobel prizewinner in Chemistry in 1963, together with Karl Ziegler, as a mentor on the profound function - and beauty! - of Geometry and Graphics in Science and Technology, even at the invisible scale of the molecular world. In the graphic synthesis of the logo, starting from a spatial version of the Leonardo’s homo ad circulum diagram, the sphere (symbolizing the macro cosmos) appears covered by a molecular pattern inspired by the Natta’s isotactic polypropylene and inscribed inside an ideally cubic frame (symbolizing the micro cosmos), and the outline of the homo (the man) meets the two mentioned structures at the base, where the first carbon atom of the chain is located, as a metaphor of the basic brick of organic life, while due to the designated viewpoint the overall outline of the logo alludes to the letter “M” of Milan. DEDICATION AND LOGO AIM AT REMARKING THE WIDE SPECTRUM OF THE SCIENTIFIC FOCUS OF THE CONFERENCE, AND THE IDENTITY OF THE 2018 EDITION - About the Conference Logo Concept and Design: Luigi Cocchiarella Digital Parameterization and Animation: Matteo Cavaglià Digital Branding: Umberto Tolino and Andrea Manciaracina