Date of Award

Summer 1994

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department

Mathematics & Statistics

Program/Concentration

Computational and Applied Mathematics

Committee Director

S. E. Weinstein

Committee Member

P. Bogacki

Committee Member

John Swetits

Committee Member

Wu Li

Committee Member

J. L. Schwing

Abstract

Because of the flexibility that the weights and the control points provide, NURBS have recently become very popular tools for the design of curves and surfaces. If the weights are positive then the NURB will lie in the convex hull of its control points and will not possess singularities. Thus it is desirable to have positive weights.

In utilizing a NURB a designer may desire that it pass through a set of data points {xi} This interpolation problem is solved by the assigning of weights to each data point. Up to now little has been known regarding the relationship between these assigned weights and the weights of the corresponding interpolating NURB. In this thesis this relationship is explored. Sufficient conditions are developed to produce interpolating NURBS which have positive weights. Applications to the problems of degree reduction and curve fairing are presented. Both theoretical and computational results are presented.

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DOI

10.25777/09j4-ak19

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