C1 Hermite shape preserving polynomial splines in R3

  • Authors:
  • Nikolaos C. Gabrielides

  • Affiliations:
  • Det Norske Veritas Software, Høvik, Norway 1363

  • Venue:
  • 3D Research
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The C 2 variable degree splines1---3 have been proven to be an efficient tool for solving the curve shape-preserving interpolation problem in two and three dimensions. Based on this representation, the current paper proposes a Hermite interpolation scheme, to construct C 1 shape-preserving splines of variable degree. After this, a slight modification of the method leads to a C 1 shape-preserving Hermite cubic spline. Both methods can easily be developed within a CAD system, since they compute directly (without iterations) the B-spline control polygon. They have been implemented and tested within the DNV Software CAD/CAE system GeniE.