Generating surfaces by refinement of curves (Q663642)

The authors extend the corner cutting subdivision scheme from refining control points to refining control curves. The key point is to deal with curves as if they are points in a bigger space, the space of parametrized curves. In this way, it is possible to build a surface, in fact a ruled surface, as a curve between two curves. Obviously, some basic conditions on the initial curves must be imposed to obtain a surface with nice properties, for example, they must be of the same topology. The generalized subdivision scheme is called ``faced cuting''. It is based on an optimal correspondence between the points of two curves and using then the corner cutting subdivision scheme to produce a new curve.