If you know B-splines well, you also know NURBS!

SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 343-347

  Fisher, John ^a   Lowther, John ^a   Shene, Ching Kuang ^a  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

B Splines; Curves and surfaces; NURBS

Indexed keywords

B-SPLINES; LEARNING-BY-DOING; TEDIOUS MATHEMATICS; UNDERGRADUATE COURSES;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; LEARNING SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

TEACHING;

EID: 33646889093     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: 00978418     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1028174.971420     Document Type: Conference Paper

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