Automatic curve fitting with Quadratic B-spline Functions and its applications to computer-assisted animation

✍ Scribed by Mark C.K. Yang

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1986
• Weight: 90 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0734-189X
• DOI: 10.1016/0734-189x(86)90224-0

✦ Synopsis

Automatic fitting to digitized curves by quadratic B-spline functions is discussed. Due to its simplicity, it is possible to find a quick fit within a given error tolerance bound which is defined as the maximum distance between the fitted curve and the original curve. Again due to the simple form of a quadratic polynomial, some complicated computations in computer-assisted animation such as hidden line removal can also be easily handled.