A unified, integral construction for coordinates over closed curves

  • Authors:
  • S. Schaefer;T. Ju;J. Warren

  • Affiliations:
  • Texas A&M University, Department of Computer Science, 3112 Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA;Texas A&M University, Department of Computer Science, 3112 Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA;Texas A&M University, Department of Computer Science, 3112 Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

  • Venue:
  • Computer Aided Geometric Design
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We propose a simple generalization of Shephard's interpolation to piecewise smooth, convex closed curves that yields a family of boundary interpolants with linear precision. Two instances of this family reduce to previously known interpolants: one based on a generalization of Wachspress coordinates to smooth curves and the other an integral version of mean value coordinates for smooth curves. A third instance of this family yields a previously unknown generalization of discrete harmonic coordinates to smooth curves. For closed, piecewise linear curves, we prove that our interpolant reproduces a general family of barycentric coordinates considered by Floater, Hormann and Kos that includes Wachspress coordinates, mean value coordinates and discrete harmonic coordinates.