Numerical analysis: 4th ed
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Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Approximating smooth planar curves by arc splines
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
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Numerical Recipes in C++: the art of scientific computing
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Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
The family of biarcs that matches planar, two-point G1 Hermite data
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Circular spline fitting using an evolution process
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Technical section: Smoothing an arc spline
Computers and Graphics
Smooth polynomial approximation of spiral arcs
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Fat arcs for implicitly defined curves
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Technical Section: Euler arc splines for curve completion
Computers and Graphics
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The clothoid is a spiral used in highway and railway route design. Clothoids are transcendental functions and so have been approximated by polynomials, by power series and continued fractions, and by rational functions. Here the clothoid is approximated by an arc spline. The chief advantage in doing so is that arc splines are very easy to lay out and to offset. Examples show that the approximation is of extremely high accuracy. It is proved that if the arc spline has n arcs, then the error in the approximation is of order O(1/n2).