Geometric approximation of the sphere by triangular polynomial spline patches

DOI10.1016/J.CAGD.2021.102061MaRDI QIDQ2668209zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Vavpetič, Emil Žagar

Publication date 3 March 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12496

zbMATH Keywords

geometric interpolationoptimal approximationspherical triangletriangular parametric polynomial patch

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical computation using splines (65D07) Numerical aspects of computer graphics, image analysis, and computational geometry (65D18)

Abstract: A sphere is a fundamental geometric object widely used in (computer aided) geometric design. It possesses rational parameterizations but no parametric polynomial parameterization exists. The present study provides an approach to the optimal approximation of equilateral spherical triangles by parametric polynomial patches if the measure of quality is the (simplified) radial error. As a consequence, optimal approximations of the unit sphere by parametric polynomial spline patches underlying on particular regular spherical triangulations arising from a tetrahedron, an octahedron and an icosahedron inscribed in the unit sphere are provided. Some low total degree spline patches with corresponding geometric smoothness are analyzed in detail and several numerical examples are shown confirming the quality of approximants.

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