A normalized basis for quintic Powell--Sabin splines

  • Authors:
  • Hendrik Speleers

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200A, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Computer Aided Geometric Design
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We construct a suitable normalized B-spline representation for C^2-continuous quintic Powell-Sabin splines. The basis functions have a local support, they are nonnegative, and they form a partition of unity. The construction is based on the determination of a set of triangles that must contain a specific set of points. We are able to define control points and cubic control polynomials which are tangent to the spline surface. We also show how to compute the Bezier control net of such a spline in a stable way.