J-splines

  • Authors:
  • Jarek Rossignac;Scott Schaefer

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States;Department of Computer Science, 3112 Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States

  • Venue:
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Both the 4-point and the uniform cubic B-spline subdivisions double the number of vertices of a closed-loop polygon ^kP and produce sequences of vertices f"j and b"j respectively. We study the J-spline subdivision scheme J"s, introduced by Maillot and Stam, which blends these two methods to produce vertices of the form v"j=(1-s)f"j+sb"j. Iterative applications of J"s yield a family of limit curves, the shape of which is parameterized by s. They include four-point subdivision curves (J"0), uniform cubic B-spline curves (J"1), and uniform quintic B-spline curves (J"1"."5). We show that the limit curve is at least C^1 when -1.7@?s@?5.8, C^2 when 0