Equiareal parameterizations of NURBS surfaces

  • Authors:
  • Yi-Jun Yang;Wei Zeng;Jian-Feng Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Graphical Models
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

The equiareality of NURBS surfaces greatly affects the results of visualization and tessellation applications, especially when dealing with extruding and intruding shapes. To improve the equiareality of given NURBS surfaces, an optimization algorithm using the Mobius transformations is presented in this paper. The optimal Mobius transformation is obtained by computing the intersection of two planar algebraic curves, whose coefficients are computed explicitly for Bezier and B-spline surfaces, while numerically for NURBS surfaces. Examples are given to show the performance of our algorithm for visualization and tessellation applications.