Bézier and B-spline techniques (Q1614891)

The book provides a clear and illustrative presentation of the basic principles in computer-aided geometric design. It is addressed mainly to the students and teachers in mathematics, computer science and engineering sciences. At the end of each chapter several problems are proposed. After a short introduction concerning affine spaces, combinations, maps, and parametric curves and surfaces, the Bézier representation and techniques are discussed in details for the case of spatial curves. One chapter is dedicated to interpolations and approximations. The B-spline representation and techniques are presented in other two chapters. Smooth curves and uniform subdivision are the last subjects in the first part of the book, concerning curves. The second part is dealing with surfaces, starting from tensor product surfaces. Bézier representation and techniques are considered for the particular case of triangular patches. The interpolation and the construction of smooth surfaces are also discussed. In particular the surface subdivision is detailed for both regular and arbitrary nets. The third part of the book treats the subject of box splines, simplex splines and multivariate splines.