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
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