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Interpolating the Hilbert
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B-Spline Curve with Knots
Caustics on Spline Curves
A B-spline is a generalization of the Bézier curve. Let a vector known as the knot vector
be defined
(1)
where is a nondecreasing sequence with , and define control points , ...,
. Define the degree as
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(2)
The "knots" , ..., are called internal knots.
Define the basis functions as
(3)
(4)
where , 2, ..., . Then the curve defined by
(5)
is a B-spline.
Specific types include the nonperiodic B-spline (first knots equal 0 and last
equal to 1; illustrated above) and uniform B-spline (internal knots are equally spaced). A
B-spline with no internal knots is a Bézier curve.
A curve is times differentiable at a point where duplicate knot values occur. The
knot values determine the extent of the control of the control points.
-splines are implemented in Mathematica as BSplineCurve[pts].
SEE ALSO: Bézier Curve, NURBS Curve, Spline
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