A scheme to specify planar C2 Pythagorean-hodograph (PH) quintic spline curves by control polygons is proposed, in which the “ordinary” C2 cubic B-spline curve serves as a reference for the shape of the PH spline. The method facilitates intuitive and efficient constructions of open and closed PH spline curves, that typically agree closely with the corresponding cubic B-spline curves. The C2 PH ...

For spline smoothing one can rewrite the smooth estimation as a linear mixed model (LMM) where the smoothing parameter appears as the variance of spline basis coefficients. Smoothing methods that use basis functions with penalization can utilize maximum likelihood (ML) theory in LMM framework ([8]). We introduce the minimum description length (MDL) model selection criterion in LMM and propose a...

This paper presents a simple and fast recurrence equation-based method for solving the cubic spline interpolation problem. The computational complexity of the method is O(n), where n is the number of measurements. The recurrence equation-based method is illustrated by an example that estimates the movement of a moving object. The paper also describes a MATLAB implementation of the new method an...

In this paper, Quintic spline in o -step points is used for the solution of fourth-order boundary value problems. Spline relations and boundary formulas are developed and the convergence analysis of the given method is investigated. Numerical illustrations are given to show the applicability and e ciency of our method.

The numerical stability of the polynomial spline collocation method for general Volterra integro-differential equation is being considered. The convergence and stability of the newmethod are given and the efficiency of the newmethod is illustrated by examples. We also proved the conjecture suggested by Danciu in 1997 on the stability of the polynomial spline collocation method for the higher-or...

A simple and elegant method is presented to perform anti-aliasing in ray traced images. The method uses stratified sampling to reduce the occurrence of artifacts in an image and features a B-spline filter to compute the final luminous intensity at each pixel. The method is scalable through the specification of the filter order. A B-spline filter of order one amounts to a simple anti-aliasing sc...

On Schwarz's domain decomposition methods for elliptic boundary value problems, submitted for publication, 1996. 6. M. J. Lai and P. Wenston, Bivariate spline method for numerical solution of steady state Navier-Stokes equations over polygons in stream function formulation, submitted, 1997. Bivariate spline method for numerical solution of time evolution Navier-Stokes equations over polygons in

Abstract. In this paper, the authors present a method to construct a smooth B-spline curve which fairly fits 3D points and at the same time satisfies the length constraints. By using the Lagrange multiplier’s conditional extreme, resorting to Broyden method, and then finding the least square solution of the control points, we can obtain the fair quasi-fitting modeling B-spline curve.

In this paper, we solve a linear system of second-order boundary value problems by using the quadratic B-spline nite el- ement method (FEM). The performance of the method is tested on one model problem. Comparisons are made with both the analyti- cal solution and some recent results.The obtained numerical results show that the method is ecient.