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ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
Volume 22, Issue 3, Pages 477-484Publisher
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
DOI: 10.1145/882262.882295
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B-spline surfaces; subdivision surfaces; local refinement
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This paper presents a generalization of non-uniforin B-spline surfaces called T-splines. T-spline control grids permit T-junctions, so lines of control points need not traverse the entire control grid. T-splines support many valuable operations within a consistent framework, such as local refinement, and the merging of several B-spline surfaces that have different knot vectors into a single gap-free model. The paper focuses on T-splines of degree three, which are C-2 (in the absence of multiple knots). T-NURCCs (Non-Uniform Rational Catrnull-Clark Surfaces with T-junctions) are a superset of both T-splines and Catmull-Clark surfaces. Thus, a modeling pro-ram for T-NURCCs can handle any NURBS or Catmull-Clark model as special cases. T-NURCCs enable true local refinement of a Catmull-Clark-type control grid: individual control points can be inserted only where they are needed to provide additional control, or to create a smoother tessellation, and such insertions do not alter the limit surface. T-NURCCs use stationary refinement rules and are C-2 except at extraordinary points and features.
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