A discrete methodology for controlling the sign of curvature and torsion for NURBS (Q1034747)

The paper aims to quantify the dependence of sign of curvature and torsion of planar and spatial nonuniform rational B-splines (NURBS), respectively, on the control points appearing in the NURBS representation. Combining NURBS basis properties with previous work of the authors, the present methodology provides a monotonic sequence of convex polyhedra converging from the interior to the feasibility domain. For non-empty convex domains, a discrete algorithm is presented and illustrated for a pair of planar and a spatial Bézier configuration.