Survey and comparison of traditional piecewise circular approximations to the ellipse

Computer Aided Geometric Design

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 269-286

  Rosin, Paul L ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

PIECEWISE CIRCULAR APPROXIMATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 0033548984     PISSN: 01678396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8396(98)00049-1     Document Type: Article

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