Computing offsets of B-spline curves
โ Scribed by Sabine Coquillart
- Book ID
- 107744426
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 423 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0010-4485
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