Computer Aided Geometric Design 4, 91-103 (1987)
Fairing cubic b-spline curves
G. Farin¹, G. Rein, N. Sapidis², A. J. Worsey³
1) Dept. of Computer Science, Arizona State University,
Tempe, AZ 85287, U.S.A.
2) Dept. of Mathematics, University of Utah,
Salt Lake City, UT 84112, U.S.A.
3) Dept. of Mathematical Sciences,
University of North Carolina at Wilmington,
Wilmington, NC 28403-3297, U.S.A.
Algorithms are presented for locally fairing a B-spline
curve in order to produce a pleasant curvature plot.
The methods are based on inversions of the knot insertion
algorithm for B-spline curves.
Gerhard Rein (rein@rz.mathematik.uni-muenchen.de)