The effect of the modification of knot values on the shape of B-spline curves is examined in this paper. The modification of a knot of a Bspline curve of order k generates a one-parameter family of curves.This family has an envelope which is also a B-spline curve with the same control polygon and of order k 2 1: Applying this theoretical result, three shape control methods are provided for cubi...

We first review B-splines and splines constructed using B-splines as the basis functions.

Collocation methods are popular in providing numerical approximations to complicated governing equations owing to their simplicity in implementation. However, point collocation methods have limitations regarding accuracy and have been modified upon with the application of B-spline approximations. The present study reports the stress and deformation behavior of shear deformable functionally grad...

We discuss the reproducing kernel structure in shift-invariant spaces and the weighted shift-invariant spaces, and obtain the reconstruction formula in time-warped weighted shift-invariant spaces, then apply them to a spline subspace. In the spline subspace, we give a reconstruction formula in a time-warped spline subspace. 1. Introduction. The problem of reconstruction of a function f has been...

This paper describes a fast algorithm for scattered data interpolation and approximation. Multilevel B-splines are introduced to compute a C 2 -continuous surface through a set of irregularly spaced points. The algorithm makes use of a coarse-tofine hierarchy of control lattices to generate a sequence of bicubic B-spline functions whose sum approaches the desired interpolation function. Large p...

In this paper we present a new method for the model of interpolation sweep surfaces by the C-continuous generalized quasicubic interpolation spline. Once given some key position, orientation and some points which are passed through by the spine and initial cross-section curves, the corresponding sweep surface can be constructed by the introduced spline function without calculating control point...

Spline curves are useful in a variety of geometric modeling and graphics applications and covering problems abound in practical settings. This work defines a class of covering decision problems for shapes bounded by spline curves. As a first step in addressing these problems, this paper treats translational spline covering for planar, uniform, cubic B-splines. Inner and outer polygonal approxim...

We study the problem of computing a planar curve, restricted to lie between two given polygonal chains, such that the integral of the square of arc-length derivative of curvature along the curve is minimized. We introduce the Minimum Variation B-spline problem which is a linearly constrained optimization problem over curves defined by Bspline functions only. An empirical investigation indicates...

B-spline filter kernals have proved useful in many pixel sampling applications. A cubic B-spline filter kernal, having a width of four pixels, is particularly effective. In distribution ray tracing, pixel filters are evaluated implicitly by having the density of sampling proportional to the filter value. In this work we present a simple method to generate random samples having an underlying B-s...