A univariate method for plane elastic curves

Computer Aided Geometric Design

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 273-292

  Brunnett, Guido ^a   Wendt, Jörg ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elastic curve; Interpolation; Nonlinear spline; True spline

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

PLANE ELASTIC CURVES; UNIVARIATE METHOD;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 0031117854     PISSN: 01678396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8396(96)00053-2     Document Type: Article

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