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Interactive Shape Control of Interpolating B‐splines
Author(s) -
Krokos M. A.,
Slater M.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
computer graphics forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.578
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1467-8659
pISSN - 0167-7055
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8659.1130435
Subject(s) - skinning , control point , b spline , parametric surface , computer science , interpolation (computer graphics) , parametric statistics , computer graphics (images) , point (geometry) , spline (mechanical) , surface (topology) , parametric model , mathematics , algorithm , computer vision , animation , geometry , mathematical analysis , ecology , statistics , structural engineering , engineering , biology
This paper presents a new methodfor providing interactive shape control of interpolating B‐splines. The CAD designer can directly interact with geometric entities defined on the B‐spline at any interpolated data point; shape adjustments can be performed either globally or locally. Our approach is based on Bλ‐splines of order k (λ,k ≥1), i.e. λ‐reparametrized, classical B‐splines. The method presented can be easily generalised to surfaces defined either as tensor products or by using the skinning technique; interactive shape control can be provided in both surface parametric directions.