Adaptive contouring of three-dimensional surfaces

DOI10.1016/0167-8396(84)90004-9zbMath0576.65137OpenAlexW2038043100MaRDI QIDQ1064769

Carl S. Petersen

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Computer Aided Geometric Design (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-8396(84)90004-9

zbMATH Keywords

scattered data interpolationbivariate functionBernstein-Bezier formcontouring algorithm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical interpolation (65D05) Multidimensional problems (41A63) Interpolation in approximation theory (41A05) Graphical methods in numerical analysis (65S05)

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