Degree reduction of NURBS curves

International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 11-12, 2006, Pages 1124-1131

  Lai, Yuan Lung ^a   Wu, James Shih Shyn ^a   Hung, Jui Pin ^b   Chen, Jian Hong ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NANYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Degree reduction; Global bound error; NURBS curves; Optimum

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; VECTORS;

DEGREE REDUCTION; GLOBAL BOUND ERROR; NURBS CURVES; OPTIMUM;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 31644444387     PISSN: 02683768     EISSN: 14333015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00170-004-2289-y     Document Type: Article

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