Degree reduction of B-spline curves

Computer Aided Geometric Design

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 117-127

  Yong, Jun Hai ^a   Hu, Shi Min ^a   Sun, Jia Guang ^a   Tan, Xing Yu ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DEGREE REDUCTION;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 0035278586     PISSN: 01678396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8396(01)00017-6     Document Type: Article

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