Non-uniform subdivision for B-splines of arbitrary degree Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We present an efficient algorithm for subdividing non-uniform B-splines of arbitrary degree in a manner similar to the Lane-Riesenfeld subdivision algorithm for uniform B-splines of arbitrary degree. Our algorithm consists of doubling the control points followed by d rounds of non-uniform averaging similar to the d rounds of uniform averaging in the Lane-Riesenfeld algorithm for uniform B-splines of degree d. However, unlike the Lane-Riesenfeld algorithm which follows most directly from the continuous convolution formula for the uniform B-spline basis functions, our algorithm follows naturally from blossoming. We show that our knot insertion method is simpler and more efficient than previous knot insertion algorithms for non-uniform B-splines. 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

published proceedings

  • COMPUTER AIDED GEOMETRIC DESIGN

author list (cited authors)

  • Schaefer, S., & Goldman, R.

citation count

  • 30

complete list of authors

  • Schaefer, S||Goldman, R

publication date

  • January 2009