Abstract Bezier curves are indispensable for geometric modelling and computer graphics. They have numerous favourable properties provide the user with intuitive tools editing shape of a parametric polynomial curve. Even more control flexibility can be achieved by associating parameter each point considering rational curves, which comes additional advantage being able to represent all conic sect...

We give a functorial construction of a rational S 1-equivariant cohomology theory from an elliptic curve equipped with suitable coordinate data. The elliptic curve may be recovered from the cohomology theory; indeed, the value of the cohomology theory on the compactification of an S 1-representation is given by the sheaf cohomology of a suitable line bundle on the curve. The construction is eas...

It is frequently important to approximate a rational Bézier curve by an integral, i.e., polynomial one. This need will arise when a rational Bézier curve is produced in one CAD system and is to be imported into another system, which can only handle polynomial curves. The objective of this paper is to present an algorithm to approximate rational Bézier curves with polynomial curves of higher deg...

We give a new and efficient method of sieving for rational points on hyperelliptic curves. This method is often successful in proving that a given hyperelliptic curve, suspected to have no rational points, does in fact have no rational points; we have often found this to be the case even when our curve has points over all localizations Qp. We illustrate the practicality of the method with some ...