UNISURF

UNISURF was a pioneering surface CAD/CAM system, designed to assist with car body design and tooling. It was developed by French engineer Pierre Bézier for Renault in 1968, and entered full use at the company in 1975.{{cite web

| title = Dead: Pierre Bezier

| publisher =Flutterby.com

| url = http://www.flutterby.com/archives/1999_Dec/7_DeadPierreBezier.html

| date = 6 December 1999

| access-date = 11 November 2013}}{{cite journal|title=Example of an existing system in the motor industry: the Unisurf system|author=Pierre Bézier|author-link=Pierre Bézier|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of London|volume=321|issue = 1545|pages=207–218|publisher=JSTOR|year=1971|jstor = 77846|doi=10.1098/rspa.1971.0027|bibcode=1971RSPSA.321..207B |s2cid=108624752}} One of the car parts developed with the assistance of UNISURF was the body of the Peugeot 204.{{cite news |last1=Clarke |first1=Adrian |title=Why Car Designers Have Used Computers for Longer Than You Think And How Boeing Helped It All |url=https://www.theautopian.com/why-car-designers-have-used-computers-for-longer-than-you-think-and-how-boeing-helped-it-all/ |access-date=9 April 2023 |work=The Autopian |date=7 April 2023}} By 1999, around 1,500 Renault employees made use of UNISURF for car design and manufacture.