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A Property on Singularities of NURBS Curves

A. LluchJuan MonterdeAna Arnal

subject

Pure mathematicsSingularityFamily of curvesCurve fittingTangentGeometryGravitational singularitySingular point of a curveNon-uniform rational B-splineDe Boor's algorithmMathematics::Numerical AnalysisMathematics

description

We prove that if a.n open Non Uniform Rational B-Spline curve of order k has a singular point, then it belongs to both curves of order k - 1 defined in the k - 2 step of the de Boor algorithm. Moreover, both curves are tangent at the singular point.

https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46080-2_24