\input zb-basic \input zb-ioport \iteman{io-port 05110571} \itemau{Dorst, Leo; van den Boomgaard, Rein} \itemti{The Support Cone: A Representational Tool for the Analysis of Boundaries and Their Interactions.} \itemso{IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 22, No.02, 174-178 (2000).} \itemab Summary: We present a directional boundary representation which deals locally and consistently with the boundary's ``inside.'' We show that collision and wave propagation are reduced to addition on the spectrum of directions and we derive transformation laws for differential geometrical properties such as directed curvature. \itemrv{~} \itemcc{} \itemut{mathematical morphology.} \itemli{doi:10.1109/34.825755} \end