Watertight trimmed NURBS

  • Authors:
  • Thomas W. Sederberg;G. Thomas Finnigan;Xin Li;Hongwei Lin;Heather Ipson

  • Affiliations:
  • Brigham Young University;Brigham Young University;University of Science and Technology of China;Zhejiang University;Brigham Young University

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 papers
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper addresses the long-standing problem of the unavoidable gaps that arise when expressing the intersection of two NURBS surfaces using conventional trimmed-NURBS representation. The solution converts each trimmed NURBS into an untrimmed T-Spline, and then merges the untrimmed T-Splines into a single, watertight model. The solution enables watertight fillets of NURBS models, as well as arbitrary feature curves that do not have to follow iso-parameter curves. The resulting T-Spline representation can be exported without error as a collection of NURBS surfaces.