System and method for defining T-spline and T-NURCC surfaces...

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Computer graphics processing – Three-dimension

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ABSTRACT:
A system and method is provided for defining a bi-cubic spline surface in a computing environment. One operation in the method is creating a control mesh with a substantially rectangular structure. A further operation is inferring from the control mesh the tensor product B-spline basis functions for each control point. The surface can then be computed based on the basis functions and the control mesh.

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