To achieve a tight integration of design and analysis, conformal solid T-spline construction with the input boundary spline representation preserved is desirable. However, to the best of our knowledge, this is still an open problem. In this paper, we provide its first solution. The input boundary T-spline surface has genus-zero topology and only contains eight extraordinary nodes, with an isopa...

We establish the asymptotical equivalence between L-spline smoothing and kernel estimation. The equivalent kernel is used to derive the asymptotic mean squared error of the L-smoothing spline estimator. The paper extends the corresponding results for polynomial spline smoothing.

This paper characterizes when the normals of a spline curve or spline surface lie in the more easily computed cone of the normals of the segments of the spline control net.

Converting point samples and/or triangular meshes to a more compact spline representation for arbitrarily topology is both desirable and necessary for computer vision and computer graphics. This paper presents a C1 manifold interpolatory spline that can exactly pass through all the vertices and interpolate their normals for data input of complicated topological type. Starting from the Powell-Sa...

The (cubic) smoothing spline, of Schoenberg [S64] and Reinsch [R67], [R71], has become the most commonly used spline, particularly after the introduction of generalized cross validation by Craven and Wahba [CW79] for an automatic choice of the smoothing parameter. It is the purpose of this note to derive the computational details, in terms of B-splines, for the construction of the weighted smoo...

Investigating the Eulerian numbers and uniform B-spline recurrence relations, a connection between Eulerian numbers and B-spline values at knot points is proved, and a relation to inner products of uniform B-splines is shown. This connection allows, with few operations, to evaluate the B-spline curve at domain knots and could be utilized to obtain an easy approximation and representation of B-s...

Most shapes are simply too complicated to define using a single Bézier curve. A spline curve is a sequence of curve segments that are connected together to form a single continuous curve. For example, a piecewise collection of Bézier curves, connected end to end, can be called a spline curve. Overhauser curves are another example of splines. The word “spline” can also be used as a verb, as in “...

We describe a method to construct a hierarchical representation of a given implicitly defined algebraic spline curve with the help of weighted spline wavelets. These wavelets are adapted to the region of interest, in our case to the region along the curve, by means of a weighted inner product. The application of two different types of weighted spline wavelets is considered and compared with sta...

A smooth surface interpolation scheme for positive and convex data has been developed. This scheme has been extended from the rational quadratic spline function of Sarfraz [11] to a rational bi-quadratic spline function. Simple data dependent constraints are derived on the free parameters in the description of rational bi-quadratic spline function to preserve the shape of 3D positive and convex...

Based on analysis of basic cubic spline interpolation, the clamped cubic spline interpolation is generalized in this paper. The methods are presented on the condition that the first derivative and second derivative of arbitrary node are given. The Clamped spline and Curvature-adjusted cubic spline are also generalized. The methods are presented on the condition that the first derivatives of arb...