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Wang Zhiguo
Zhou Laishui
Wang Xiaoping
College of Mechanical and
Electrical Engineering,
CAD/CAM Research Center,
Nanjing University of Aeronautics
and Astronautics,
Nanjng 210016, China |
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DIRECT
MANIPULATION OF B-SPLINE
SURFACES*
Abstract: Engineering design and geometric modeling often require the ability to modify the shape of parametric curves and surfaces so that their shape satisfy some given geometric constraints, including point, normal vector, curve and surface. Two approaches are presented to directly manipulate the shape of B-spline surface. The former is based on the least-square, whereas the latter is based on minimizing the bending energy of surface. For each method, since unified and explicit formulae are derived to compute new control points of modified surface, these methods are simple, fast and applicable for CAD systems. Algebraic technique is used to simplify the computation of B-spline composition and multiplication. Comparisons and examples are also given.
Key words:
NURBS Bending energy Fairness Kronecker product Stiffness matrix |