Interactive Curve Modeling

• Weighted Nu Splines.- Rational Cubic Spline with Shape Control.- Rational Sigma (? )Splines.- Linear, Conic and Rational Cubic Splines.- Shape-Preserving Rational Interpolation for Planar Curves.- Visualization of Shaped Data by a Rational Cubic Spline.- Visualization of Shaped Data by Cubic Spline Interpolation.- ApproximationwithB-SplinesCurves.- Spirals.- Corner Detection for Curve Segmentation.- Linear Capture of Digital Curves.- Digital Outline Capture with Cubic Curves.- Computer-Aided Reverse Engineering Using Evolutionary Heuristics on NURBS.- Multiresolution Framework for B-Splines.

From the reviews: "The major goal of this book is to stimulate views and provide a source where students, researchers, and practitioners can find the latest developments in the field of interactive curve modeling and its applications. The book has been designed as a course book for undergraduate as well as graduate students in the area of computer science in particular. The main audience of the book are the communities related to the field of computer graphics, vision, and imaging." (Antonio Lopez-Carmona, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1130 (8), 2008) "Researchers, engineers, scientists, and graduate students working on 'curve modeling/analysis/design' in computer graphics, computer-aided design (CAD)/computer-aided engineering (CAE)/computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), imaging/visualization, and computer vision will find this book useful. It reviews a host of problems, and describes various solutions and appropriate curve models. ... Overall, the book fills an important gap in the current literature, and I am sure it will be very useful to specialists (academics, software developers, and graduate students) working in various fields on curve modeling problems." (N. Sapidis, Computing Reviews, April, 2009)