C2 free-form surfaces of degree (3,5)

  • Authors:
  • Jörg Peters

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Florida, Department of Computer, Information Science and Engineering (CISE), Room E328, CSE Building, Gainesville, FL 32611-6120, USA

  • Venue:
  • Computer Aided Geometric Design
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper introduces new techniques for modeling low degree, smooth free-form surfaces of unrestricted patch layout. In particular, surfaces that are C2 after reparametrization can be built from tensor-product Bézier or spline patches of degree (3, 3) and (3, d + 2); at extraordinary points, these surfaces have the flexibility of C2 splines of total degree d 0. The particular choice, d = 3, yields more than n+5 vector-valued degree of freedom where n patches join. The techniques generalize to Gk constructions of free-form surfaces of degree (k + 1,d + 2k - 2).