Modeling with rational biquadratic splines

  • Authors:
  • Kestutis Karčiauskas;Jörg Peters

  • Affiliations:
  • Vilnius University, Lithuania;CISE, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

  • Venue:
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We develop a rational biquadratic G^1 analogue of the non-uniform C^1 B-spline paradigm. These G^1 splines can exactly reproduce parts of multiple basic shapes, such as cyclides and quadrics, and combine them into one smoothly-connected structure. This enables a design process that starts with basic shapes, re-represents them in spline form and uses the spline form to provide shape handles for localized free-form modification that can preserve, in the large, the initial fair, basic shapes.