The analytic blossom

  • Authors:
  • Géraldine Morin;Ron Goldman

  • Affiliations:
  • Rice Univ., Houston, TX;Rice Univ., Houston, TX

  • Venue:
  • Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Blossoming is a powerful tool for studying and computing with Bzier and B-spline curves and surfaces --- that is, for the investigation and analysis of polynomials and piecewise polynomials in geometric curves. Poisson curves are to analytic functions what Bzier curves are the polynomials --- a representation adapted to geometric design. As in the polynomial setting, the blossom provides a simple, powerful elegant and computationally meaningful way to analyze Poisson curves. Here, we define the analytic blossom and interpret all the known algorithms for Poisson curves --- subdivision, trimming, evaluation of the function and its derivatives, and conversion between the Taylor and the Poisson basis --- in terms of this analytic blossom.