Title
Dimension and bases for geometrically continuous splines on surfaces of arbitrary topology.
Abstract
We analyze the space of geometrically continuous piecewise polynomial functions, or splines, for rectangular and triangular patches with arbitrary topology and general rational transition maps. To define these spaces of G 1 spline functions, we introduce the concept of topological surface with gluing data attached to the edges shared by faces. The framework does not require manifold constructions and is general enough to allow non-orientable surfaces. We describe compatibility conditions on the transition maps so that the space of differentiable functions is ample and show that these conditions are necessary and sufficient to construct ample spline spaces. We determine the dimension of the space of G 1 spline functions which are of degree ≤k on triangular pieces and of bi-degree ≤ ( k , k ) on rectangular pieces, for k big enough. A separability property on the edges is involved to obtain the dimension formula. An explicit construction of basis functions attached respectively to vertices, edges and faces is proposed; examples of bases of G 1 splines of small degree for topological surfaces with boundary and without boundary are detailed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.cagd.2016.03.003
Computer Aided Geometric Design
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Geometrically continuous splines,Dimension and bases of spline spaces,Gluing data,Polygonal patches,Surfaces of arbitrary topology
Journal
45
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
C
0167-8396
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.59
12
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bernard Mourrain11074113.70
Raimundas Vidunas2123.07
Nelly Villamizar3132.72