On Wachspress pentagonal patches
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Wachspress quadrilateral patches have been recently studied from the point of view of applications to surface modelling in CAGD [1], [3], [4]. Some more applications for defining barycentric coordinates for arbitrary polygons have also been presented in [5] [9]. The purpose of the present paper is to introduce non-negative Wachspress rational basis functions for surface modelling on pentagonal partitions. Interpolation formula for function values and directional derivatives at the vertices of pentagon has been presented. Conditions for C− continuity of the composite surface have also been studied in the paper.
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