We present a novel method named truncated hierarchical unstructured splines (THU-splines) that supports both local h-refinement and quadrilateral meshes. In THU-spline construction, an mesh is taken as the input control mesh, where degenerated-patch [20] adopted in irregular regions to define $$C^1$$ -continuous bicubic splines, whereas regular only involve $$C^2$$ B-splines. Irregular are then...

The first type of pseudo-splines were introduced by [Daubechies, Han, Ron and Shen, 2003] (DHRS) to construct tight framelets with desired approximation orders via the unitary extension principle of [Ron and Shen, 1997]. In the spirit of the first type of pseudo-splines, we introduce here a new type (the second type) of pseudo-splines to construct symmetric or antisymmetric tight framelets with...

We show how to combine, into one unified spline complex, C2 tensorproduct bi-cubic NURBS and G2 bi-cubic rational splines. The G2 splines are capable of exactly representing basic shapes such as (pieces of) quadrics and surfaces of revolution, including tori and cyclides. The main challenge is to bridge the differing continuity. We transform the G2 splines to splines that are C2 in homogeneous ...

We extend Schoenberg’s family of polynomial splines with uniform knots to all fractional degrees α > −1. These splines, which involve linear combinations of the one-sided power functions x+ = max(0, x) α, are α-Hölder continuous for α > 0. We construct the corresponding B-splines by taking fractional finite differences and provide an explicit characterization in both time and frequency domains....

in this paper we introduce an improvement in the path planning algorithm for the humanoid soccer playing robot which uses ferguson splines and pso (particle swarm optimization). the objective of the algorithm is to find a path through other playing robots to the ball, which should be as short as possible and also safe enough. ferguson splines create preliminary paths using random generated para...

by using the trigonometric uniform splines of order 3 with a real tension factor, a numericalmethod is developed for solving a linear second order boundary value problems (2vbp) withdirichlet, neumann and cauchy types boundary conditions. the moment at the knots isapproximated by central finite-difference method. the order of convergence of the methodand the theory is illustrated by solving tes...

Elastic splines (including dynamic \snakes" and elastic contours), minimising an energy norm of the membrane and/or thin-plate types, have been used to model many surfaces in visual reconstruction and related biomedical applications. In this paper, we model the displacement of the material between successive cardiac images using vector splines. We deene a family of elastic splines. These spline...

This paper develops the manifold T-splines, which naturally extend the concept and the currently available algorithms/techniques of the popular planar tensor-product NURBS and T-splines to arbitrary manifold domain of any topological type. The key idea is the global conformal parameterization that intuitively induces a tensor-product structure with a finite number of zero points, and hence offe...