Shape preserving representations in computer aided geometric design

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The main goal of this book is to present fundamentals and techniques related with shape preserving representations.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe book is organized in five sections: shape preserving representation of curves, optimality of B-bases, blossoming and geometric approach, shape preserving representation of surfaces and trigonometric bases for the representation of surfaces and trigonometric bases for the representation of curves and surfaces.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe first section analyzes the bases associated with shape preserving representations of curves, showing that the curves inherit shape properties of the control polygon when the basis is totally positive and normalized.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe first contribution presents an introduction to the theory of Bezier curves, based on Bernstein polynomials. Spline curves, based on B-splines, are also presented as a natural extension polynomials. Spline curves, based on B-splines, are also presented as a natural extension of Bezier curves. In Chapter 2, general representation such that the shape of the curve is controlled by the shape of the control polygon are analyzed. Shape preserving properties of curves defined by normalized totally positive bases are studied in Chapter 3.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn the third section, normalized B-bases present optimal shape preserving properties for the representation of curves when control polygons are used. In Chapter 4, properties, examples, characterizations and applications of B-bases are provided. In Chapter 5, optimal stability of B-bases for the evaluation is shown.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEPart III: In Chapter 6, the classical CAGD tools are presented through the blossoming principle. In Chapter 7, a purely geometric approach to variation dimishing freeform curve schemes, based on the use of normal curves and the theory of geometric orders, is presented.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe forth section analyzes some important shape preserving representations of surfaces. Shape properties of functions which are preserved by multivariate Bernstein polynomials defined on triangulations are presented in Chapter 8. Shape preserving properties, related with monotonicity, convexity, and sign changes, of tensor-product Bernstein polynomials, are analyzed in Chapter 9. Chapter 10 deals with methods for fair and shape-preserving surface fitting with tensor-product B-splines, both for functional and parametric surfaces.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn the fifth section, the B-basis of the space of trigonometric polynomials provides an alternative parametrization for rational Bezier curves and surfaces. Some applications of this trigonometric parametrization are presented in Chapter 11. Chapter 12 contains a survey of trigonometric splines.




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