Geometric Modeling with Splines (eBook)

Part I: Introduction 1. Review of Basic Concepts Part II: Curves 2. Representation Issues 3. Conic Sections 4. Differential Geometry for Space Curves 5. Bezier Curves and Bernstein Approximation 6. B-Spline Curves 7. Linear Spaces of B-Splines 8. Choosing a B-Spline Space 9. Data Fitting with B-Splines 10. Other Polynomial Bases for Interpolation 11. Other Derivations of B-Splines Part III: Surfaces 12. Differential Geometry for Surfaces 13. Surface Representations 14. Fitting Surfaces 15. Modeling with B-Spline Surfaces Part IV: Advanced Techniques 16. Subdivision and Refinement for Splines 17. Subdivision and Refinement in Modeling 18. Set Operations to Effect Modeling 19. Model Data Structures 20. Subdivision Surfaces 21. Higher-Dimensional Tensor Product B-Splines