Approximation of circular arcs by Bézier curves

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 145-163

  Ahn, Young Joon ^a   Kim, Hong Oh ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Best approximation; Circular arcs; Geometric continuity; Hausdorff distance; Quartic B zier; Quintic B zier

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL METHODS;

BEST APPROXIMATION; CIRCULAR ARCS; GEOMETRIC CONTINUITY; HAUSDORFF DISTANCE; QUARTIC BEZIER; QUINTIC BEZIER;

APPROXIMATION THEORY;

EID: 0031165496     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0427(97)00037-X     Document Type: Article

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