• DocumentCode
    1195529
  • Title

    Approximating surfaces of revolution by nonrational B-splines

  • Author

    Piegl, Les A. ; Tiller, Wayne

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of South Florida, FL, USA
  • Volume
    23
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2003
  • Firstpage
    46
  • Lastpage
    52
  • Abstract
    We present a method to approximate surfaces of revolution with nonrational B-splines requiring a modest number of control points in the range of engineering tolerances.
  • Keywords
    computational geometry; engineering graphics; splines (mathematics); control points; engineering tolerances; nonrational B-splines; surface of revolution approximation; Interpolation; Lattices; Process design; Shape; Spline; Surface reconstruction; Surface topography; Tensile stress;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0272-1716
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MCG.2003.1198262
  • Filename
    1198262