Partial derivatives of rational Bézier surfaces

Computer Aided Geometric Design

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 377-381

  Wang, Guo Jin ^a   Sederberg, Thomas W ^b   Saito, Takafumi ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bound; Derivative; Moving curve; Rational B zier curve; Rational B zier surface

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); GRAPH THEORY; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

RATIONAL BEZIER CURVE; RATIONAL BEZIER SURFACE;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 0031143081     PISSN: 01678396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8396(96)00033-7     Document Type: Article

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