Three types of spherical splines are presented as developed in the recent literature on constructive approximation, with a particular view towards global (and local) geopotential modeling. These are the tensor-product splines formed from polynomial and trigonometric B-splines, the spherical splines constructed from radial basis functions, and the spherical splines based on homogeneous Bernstein...

C 1-surface splines deene tangent continuous surfaces from control points in the manner of tensor-product (B-)splines, but allow a wider class of control meshes capable of outlining arbitrary free-form surfaces with or without boundary. In particular, irregular meshes with non quadrilateral cells and more or fewer than four cells meeting at a point can be input and are treated in the same conce...

A method for reconstruction of 3D rational B-spline surfaces from multiple views is proposed. Given corresponding features in multiple views, though not necessarily visible in all views, the surface is reconstructed. First 2D B-spline patches are fitted to each view. The 3D B-splines and projection matricies can then be extracted from the 2D B-splines using factorization methods. The surface fi...

In this study, trigonometric quintic B-spline collocation method is constructed for computing numerical solutions of the reaction-diffusion system (RDS). Schnakenberg, Gray-Scott and Brusselator models are special cases systems considered as examples in paper. Crank-Nicolson formulae used time discretization generalized RDS nonlinear terms time-discretized form linearized using Taylor expansion...

Due to some important properties of B ezier splines, they have great potential use in computer-aided mammogram diagnosis. In this paper, B ezier splines are applied in both lesion detection and characterization processes, where lesion detection is achieved by segmentation using a natural threshold computed from B ezier smoothed histogram; and lesion characterization is achieved by measuring the...