The octant of a sphere as a non-degenerate triangular Bézier patch

DOI10.1016/0167-8396(87)90007-0zbMath0646.41011MaRDI QIDQ1103804

Gerald Farin, Andrew J. Worsey, B. Piper

Publication date: 1987

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-8396(87)90007-0

zbMATH Keywords

weights; stereographic projection; Bézier points; rational Bézier triangles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

41A20: Approximation by rational functions

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