A personal account of the author's encounters with multivariate splines during their early history. 1 Tensor product spline interpolation My first contact with multivariate splines occurred in August 1960. In my first year at the Harvard Graduate School, working as an RA for Garrett Birkhoff, I had not done too well but, nevertheless, had gotten married and so needed a better income than the RA...

In previous decades, many of the practical problems arising in scientific fields such as physics, engineering, and mathematics have been related to nonlinear fractional partial differential equations. One these equations, dissipative wave equation, has found a plethora useful applications different fields. A special class solutions studied for equation including exact approximate solutions. The...

Abstract Bézier splines are widely available in various systems with the curves and surface designs. In general, the Bézier spline can be specified with the Bézier curve segments and a Bézier curve segment can be fitted to any number of control points. The number of control points determines the degree of the Bézier polynomial. This paper presents a method which determines control points for Bé...

The effect of the modification of knot values on the shape of B-spline curves is examined in this paper. The modification of a knot of a Bspline curve of order k generates a one-parameter family of curves.This family has an envelope which is also a B-spline curve with the same control polygon and of order k 2 1: Applying this theoretical result, three shape control methods are provided for cubi...