• DocumentCode
    2372928
  • Title

    Representing spheres and ellipsoids using periodic NURBS surfaces with fewer control vertices

  • Author

    Qin, Kaihuai ; Wang, Wenping ; Tang, Zesheng

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    26-29 Oct 1998
  • Firstpage
    210
  • Lastpage
    211
  • Abstract
    A new kind of NURBS representation for periodic curves is introduced. The method for periodic curves is extended to derive a compact and symmetric representation of the sphere or the ellipsoid using a piecewise bi-quadratic NURBS surface with only eight distinct control vertices
  • Keywords
    CAD; computational geometry; splines (mathematics); surface fitting; NURBS representation; control vertices; distinct control vertices; ellipsoids; nonuniform rational b-splines; periodic NURBS surfaces; periodic curves; piecewise bi-quadratic NURBS surface; spheres; symmetric representation; Computer science; Ellipsoids; Spline; Sufficient conditions; Surface reconstruction; Surface topography; Transmission line matrix methods; Weight control;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Graphics and Applications, 1998. Pacific Graphics '98. Sixth Pacific Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-8620-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PCCGA.1998.732121
  • Filename
    732121