Algorithms for degree-raising of splines

  • Authors:
  • Elaine Cohen;Tom Lyche;Larry L. Schumaker

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT;Univ. of Oslo, Oslo, Norway;Texas A&M Univ., College Station

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

Stable and efficient algorithms for degree-raising of curves (or surfaces) represented as arbitrary B-splines are presented as a application of the solution to the theoretical problem of rewriting a curve written as a linear combination of mth order B-splines as a linear combination of (m + 1)st order B-splines with a minimal number of knot insertions. This approach can be used to introduce additional degrees of freedom to a curve (or surface), a problem which naturally arises in certain circumstances in constructing mathematical models for computer-aided geometric design.