Designing fair curves using monotone curvature pieces

Computer Aided Geometric Design

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 515-527

  Wang, Yulin ^a,b   Zhao, Bingyan ^a,c   Zhang, Luzou ^a   Xu, Jiachuan ^a   Wang, Kanchang ^a   Wang, Shuchun ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

B spline curve; B zier curve; Monotone curvature variation; Shape control; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILES; CONSTRAINT THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS;

MONOTONE CURVATURE PIECES (MCV); SHAPE CONTROL; SMOOTHING;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 2342567046     PISSN: 01678396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cagd.2004.04.001     Document Type: Article

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