Form creation for automobile design

International Journal of Vehicle Design

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 360-383

  Hsiao, Shih Wen ^a   Chang, Ming Sheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Car style design; Computer aided design; Shape averaging weighted generalized mean; Weighted mean; spline

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALIAS SYSTEM; AUTOMOBILE DESIGN; BETA SPLINE; CAR MODELS; CAR STYLE DESIGN; DATA FILE; SHAPE AVERAGING; WEIGHTED GENERALIZED MEAN; WEIGHTED MEAN;

AUTOMOBILES;

EID: 0029700598     PISSN: 01433369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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