On parametric smoothness of generalised B-spline curves

DOI10.1016/J.CAGD.2006.06.004MaRDI QIDQ2432794zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tomasz Popiel

Publication date 25 October 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cagd.2006.06.004

zbMATH Keywords

Cox-de Boor algorithm minimal geodesics Riemannian manifold uniform knot spacing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical computation using splines (65D07) Computer-aided design (modeling of curves and surfaces) (65D17)

Review text

The author studies the global continuity of generalised B-spline curves on a Riemannian manifold \(M\). These piecewise \(C^\infty\) curves are defined recursively by replacing line segments with minimal geodesics in the classical Cox-de Boor algorithm. First, it is proved that a generalised B-spline curve of degree \(m\) is continuous at the knots and \(C^1\) at the knots of multiplicity at most \(m-1\). The main result then provides an explicit formula for the difference between the left and right covariant accelerations at a knot of multiplicity at most \(m-2\) in terms of the exponential map of \(M\), showing that, unlike classical B-spline curves, generalised B-spline curves need not be in general \(C^2\) continuous at such knots. This result extends a previous example of \textit{M.-J. Kim, M.-S. Kim} and \textit{S. Shin} [Proc. Computer Animation '95, 72--81 (1995)] with \(M=S^3\), \(m=3\), and enables the construction of a new example with \(M=S^2\), \(m=3\), which demonstrates that uniform knot spacing does not guarantee \(C^2\) or \(G^2\) continuity.

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