Based on the local refinement algorithm addressed in [18], we analyze the linear independence of the bi-cubic T-spline blending functions corresponding to particular T-meshes.

Rational Bezier and B-spline representations of circles have been heavily publicized. However, all the literature assumes the rational Bezier segments in the homogeneous space are both planar and (equivalent to) quadratic. This creates the illusion that circles can only be achieved by planar and quadratic curves. In this paper we show circles that are formed by higher order rational Bezier curv...

This paper describes the use of cubic splines for interpolating monotonic data sets. Interpolating cubic splines are popular for 1tting data because they use low-order polynomials and have C continuity, a property that permits them to satisfy a desirable smoothness constraint. Unfortunately, that same constraint often violates another desirable property: monotonicity. It is possible for a set o...

The dynamics of all quadratic Newton maps rational functions is completely described. Julia set such a map found to be either Jordan curve or totally disconnected. It proved that no with degree at least three any function conformally conjugate unicritical polynomial (i.e., exactly one finite critical point). However, there are cubic which other polynomials. shown closed curve. whenever the has ...

Abstract. We present a new modified nodal cubic spline collocation scheme for solving the Dirichlet problem for Poisson’s equation on the unit square. We prove existence and uniqueness of a solution of the scheme and show how the solution can be computed on an (N + 1) × (N + 1) uniform partition of the square with cost O(NlogN) using a direct fast Fourier transform method. Using two comparison ...

ABSTRACT: Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT), proposed by N. E. Huang in 1998, is a novel algorithm for nonlinear and non-stationary signal processing. The key part of this method is decomposition the signal into finite number of Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMF) which will meet the requirements of Hilbert Transform. In this part, the algorithm uses natural cubic spline to connect all local maxima and ...

Arc splines are G continuous curves made of circular arcs and straight-line segments. They have the advantages that the curvature of an arc spline is known and controlled at all but a finite number of points, and that the offset curve of an arc spline is another arc spline. Arc splines are used by computer-controlled machines as a natural curve along which to cut and are used by highway route p...

A random regression model with both random and fixed regressions fitted by Legendre polynomials of order 4 was compared with 3 alternative models fitting linear splines with 4, 5, or 6 knots. The effects common for all models were a herd-test-date effect, fixed regressions on days in milk (DIM) nested within region-age-season of calving class, and random regressions for additive genetic and per...

The class of Functional Signal plus Noise (FSN) models is introduced that provides a new, general method for modelling and forecasting time series of economic functions. The underlying, continuous economic function (or ‘signal’) is a natural cubic spline whose dynamic evolution is driven by a cointegrated vector autoregression for the ordinates (or ‘y-values’) at the knots of the spline. The na...

We propose a quartic function to represent a family of continuous quality loss functions. Depending on the choice of its parameters the shape of this function within the specification limits can be either symmetric or asymmetric, and it can be either similar to the ubiquitous quadratic loss function or somewhat closer to the conventional step function. We examine this family of loss functions i...