The matrix forms for curves and surfaces were largely promoted in CAD. These formulations are very compact to write, simple to program, and clear to understand. They manifest the desired basis as a matrix transformation of the common power basis. Furthermore, this implementation can be made extremely fast if appropriate matrix facilities are available in either hardware or software. Derivatives...

i=0 aix , ai ∈ R. We will denote by πn the linear (vector) space of all such polynomials. The actual degree of p is the largest i for which ai is non-zero. The functions 1, x, . . . , x form a basis for πn, known as the monomial basis, and the dimension of the space πn is therefore n + 1. Bernstein polynomials are an alternative basis for πn, and are used to construct Bezier curves. The i-th Be...

The present study discusses several approaches of representing curve boundaries with high-order Euler solvers. The aim is to minimize the solution entropy error. The traditional boundary representation based on interpolation polynomials is presented first. A new boundary representation based on the Bezier curve is then developed and analyzed. Several numerical tests are conducted to compare bot...

The spline element method with constraints is a discretization method where the unknowns are expanded as polynomials on each element and Lagrange multipliers are used to enforce the interelement conditions, the boundary conditions and the constraints in numerical solution of partial differential equations. Spaces of piecewise polynomials with global smoothness conditions are known as multivaria...

The generation of technical smooth surfaces from a mesh of three-dimensional data points is an important problem in geometric modelling. In this publication we give a survey of some new techniques based on a calculus of variation approach. Apart from the pure construction of these surfaces, the analysis of their quality is equally important in the design and manufacturing process. Generalized f...

B-spline methods have several advantages over Bezier techniques. B-splines are piecewise polynomials that meet smoothly at their common boundaries independent of the location of the control points. This guaranteed smoothness allows designers to use low degree polynomial pieces to construct complicated freeform shapes. In addition, a control point of a B-spline curve or surface has no influence ...

In this paper problem for converting a circular arc into cubic Bezier arc and approximation of cubic Bezier curve by a set of circular arcs are discussed. These questions occur in CAD/CAM systems during data exchange from data formats which support Bezier curves or during data exchange into data formats, which do not support Bezier curves. Some simple and practical solutions are proposed. An al...

We address the problem of extending the lifetime of wireless sensor networks using multi-path routing based on a family of flexible routes with soft quality of service guarantees in terms of the packets’ delivery latency. We introduce a methodology based on Bezier curves as guiding trajectories in the routing process and we address the balancing of the workload among neighboring nodes. An added...

. Parametric curves are represented using these modified Bernstein basis and the concept of total positivity is applied to investigate the shape properties of the curve. We get Bézier curve defined on [0, 1] when we set the parameter α, β to the value 0. We also present a de Casteljau algorithm to compute Bernstein Bézier curves and surfaces with shifted knots. The new curves have some properti...