The conversion matrix between uniform B-spline and Bézier representations

Computer Aided Geometric Design

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 549-560

  Romani, L ^a,c   Sabin, M A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Numerical Geometry Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Direct transformations; Explicit multi B zier form; Matrix representation; Uniform B spline basis functions

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

DIRECT TRANSFORMATIONS; EXPLICIT MULTI-BÉZIER FORM; MATRIX REPRESENTATIONS; UNIFORM B-SPLINE BASIS FUNCTIONS;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 2942676751     PISSN: 01678396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cagd.2004.04.002     Document Type: Article

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