A rational cubic trigonometric spline with two shape parameters which play an important role in manipulating the shape of the curve is described in this paper. Its algebraic analogue with shape parameters has been discussed. Spline is presented both in interpolatory and rational B-spline form and the properties of resulting Bsplines are also studied. Keywords— Computer aided geometric design, r...

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 ...

Asymptote is widely used in astronomy, mechanics, architecture and relevant subjects. In this paper, by analyzing the Frenet frame and the Darboux frame of a curve on the surface, the necessary and sufficient conditions for a quadrilateral boundary being asymptotic of a surface are derived. This quadrilateral is called asymptotic quadrilateral. Given corner data including positions, tangents an...

We analyze an alternative to classical Zernike fitting based on the cubic B-spline model, and compare the strengths and weaknesses of each representation over a set of different wavefronts that cover a wide range of shape complexity. The results obtained show that a Zernike low-degree polynomial expansion or a cubic B-spline with a low number of breakpoints are the best choices for fitting simp...

There are thousands of articles published on variants of splines, including least squares cubic splines. One of the first least squares articles was de Boor and Rice [1], and a comprehensive explanatory textbook is Dierckx [2]. Unfortunately, every example in the literature and on the web of a least squares cubic spline makes use of B-splines. While B-splines have a certain elegance, they are s...

Based on the matrix perturbation technique. a fast-fitting algorithm using uniform cubic B-spline curves is presented. Our algorithm entails much less floating-point operations when compared with Gaussian elimination method. In addition, our result can be applied to solve the closed cubic B-spline curve-fitting problem. Experimental results are included for a practical version. These experiment...

Both the 4-point and the uniform cubic B-spline subdivisions double the number of vertices of a closed-loop polygon P and produce sequences of vertices fj and bj respectively. We study the J-spline subdivision scheme Js, introduced by Maillot and Stam, which blends these two methods to produce vertices of the form vj=(1–s)fj+sbj. Iterative applications of Js yield a family of limit curves, the ...

This article presents uniform B-spline interpolation, completely contained on the graphics processing unit (GPU). This implies that the CPU does not need to compute any lookup tables or B-spline basis functions. The cubic interpolation can be decomposed into several linear interpolations [Sigg and Hadwiger 05], which are hard-wired on the GPU and therefore very fast. Here it is demonstrated tha...

The non-local hyperbolic partial differential equations have many applications in sciences and engineering. A collocation finite element approach based on exponential cubic B-spline and quintic B-spline are presented for the numerical solution of the wave equation subject to nonlocal boundary condition. Von Neumann stability analysis is used to analyze the proposed methods. The efficiency, accu...