Modeling sphere-like manifolds with spherical Powell--Sabin B-splines

  • Authors:
  • Jan Maes;Adhemar Bultheel

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, K.U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200A, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium;Department of Computer Science, K.U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200A, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Computer Aided Geometric Design
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We present an algorithm for computing a B-spline representation for Powell-Sabin splines on the sphere. The B-splines form a partition of unity and we define control points that constitute control triangles that give us a good insight in the shape of the spline. We further consider a number of CAGD applications such as approximation and compression of a given sphere-like triangular mesh, and editing global shape and local detail of a spline using spline subdivision.