Bézier Surfaces of Minimal Internal Energy

Yongwei Miao, Huahao Shou, Jieqing Feng, Qunsheng Peng, A. Robin Forrest

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Abstract

In this paper the variational problems of finding Bézier surfaces that minimize the bending energy functional with prescribed border for both cases of triangular and rectangular are investigated. As a result, two new bending energy masks for finding Bézier surfaces of minimal bending energy for both triangular and rectangular cases are proposed. Experimental comparisons of these two new bending energy masks with existing Dirichlet, Laplacian, harmonic and average masks are performed which show that bending energy masks are among the best.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMathematics of Surfaces XI
EditorsRalph Martin, Helmut Bez, Malcolm Sabin
PublisherSpringer
Pages318-335
Number of pages18
Volume3604
ISBN (Print)978-3-540-28225-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005

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NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer-Verlag

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