B-spline functions are widely used in many industrial applications such as computer graphic representations, computer aided design, computer aided manufacturing, computer numerical control, etc. Recently, there exist some demands, e.g. in reverse engineering (RE) area, to employ B-spline curves for non-trivial cases that include curves with discontinuous points, cusps or turning points from the...

Smoothness is a desirable characteristic of interpolated zero curves; not only is it intuitively appealing, but there is some evidence that it provides more accurate pricing of securities. This paper outlines the mathematics necessary to understand the smooth interpolation of zero curves, and describes two useful methods: cubic-spline interpolation—which guarantees the smoothest interpolation o...

In parametric excitation walking, up-and-down motion of the center of mass restores mechanical energy and sustainable gait is generated. Not only walking performance but also walking ability strongly depends on the reference trajectory of the center of mass. In this paper, we propose an optimization method for the reference trajectory, in which the reference trajectory is confined to the quarti...

We present a new kind of subdivision schemes, which we call combined subdivision schemes. Such schemes are used to reene a given control net, taking into consideration boundary conditions on the limit surface. Several schemes are presented that generate limit surfaces interpolating given boundary curves and cross boundary derivatives. The interpolated boundary curves are arbitrary parametric cu...

The problem of approximating a given set of data points by splines composed of Pythagorean Hodograph (PH) curves is addressed. We discuss this problem in a framework that is not only restricted to PH spline curves, but can be applied to more general representations of shapes. In order to solve the highly nonlinear curve fitting problem, we formulate an evolution process within the family of PH ...

B-spline surfaces are piecewisely defined surfaces where the section points of the domain of definition are called knots. In [2] the authors proved some theorems in terms of knot modification of B-spline curves. Here we generalize these results for oneand two-parameter family of surfaces. An additional result concerning a higher order contact of these surfaces and an envelope is also proved.

Spline knots based on Bézier curves or B-splines can exhibit a knot type that is different from that exhibited by its control polygon, i.e., the spline and its control polygon are not ambient isotopic. By forming composite knots from suitably designed building blocks the difference in knottedness of the two 1-manifolds can be made arbitrarily large.

GB-spline curves can be considered as the generalization of B-spline curve incorporating a shape parameter into the polynomial basis functions. The geometric effect of the alteration of the shape parameter is discussed in this paper, including constrained shape control of the curve.

Chaiken's algorithm is a procedure for inserting new knots into uniform quadratic Bspline curves by doubling the control points and taking two successive averages. Lane and Riesenfeld showed that Chaiken's algorithm extends to uniform B-spline curves of arbitrary degree. By generalizing the notion of successive averaging, we further extend Chaiken's algorithm to B-spline curves of arbitrary deg...

This short paper describes our three submissions to the 2013 edition of the MIREX Symbolic Melodic Similarity task. All three submissions rely on a geometric model that represents melodies as spline curves in the pitch-time plane. The similarity between two melodies is then computed with a sequence alignment algorithm between sequences of spline spans: the more similar the shape of the curves, ...