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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2004
Applicant:
Thomas W. Sederberg, Orem, UT (US);
Inventor:
Thomas W. Sederberg, Orem, UT (US);
Assignee:
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method is provided for defining a bi-cubic spline surface in a computing environment. One operation in the method is creating a control mesh with a substantially rectangular structure. A further operation is inferring from the control mesh the tensor product B-spline basis functions for each control point. The surface can then be computed based on the basis functions and the control mesh.