Degree reduction of Bézier curves (Q5903794)

Degree reduction of Bézier curves and surfaces is a process that amounts to approximating a polynomial of degree n by one of degree \(m<n\). Here, an algorithm for generating an (n-1) degree approximation to an n- th degree Bézier curve is presented. The method is based on minimax approximation techniques which allow the development of a detailed error analysis.