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This article studies families of curves with monotonic curvature function (MC-curves) and their applications in geometric modelling and aesthetic design. Aesthetic analysis and assessment of the structure and plastic qualities of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2013-05-09 Rushan Ziatdinov , Rifkat I. Nabiyev , Kenjiro T. Miura

Line intersection with convex and un-convex polygons or polyhedron algorithms are well known as line clipping algorithms and very often used in computer graphics. Rendering of geometrical problems often leads to ray tracing techniques, when…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Vaclav Skala

This paper approximates simulation models by B-splines with a penalty on high-order finite differences of the coefficients of adjacent B-splines. The penalty prevents overfitting. The simulation output is assumed to be nonnegative. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Yu Xia , Farid Alizadeh

The preservation of ambient isotopic equivalence under piecewise linear (PL) approximation for smooth knots are prominent in molecular modeling and simulation. Sufficient conditions are given regarding: (1) Hausdorff distance, and (2) a sum…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-01-16 J. Li , T. J. Peters , K. E. Jordan

${\cal U}$ntil now the representation (i.e. plotting) of curve in Parallel Coordinates is constructed from the point $\leftrightarrow$ line duality. The result is a ``line-curve'' which is seen as the envelope of it's tangents. Usually this…

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We introduce a novel vision-based framework for in-situ trunk identification and length measurement of sea cucumbers, which plays a crucial role in the monitoring of marine ranching resources and mechanized harvesting. To model sea cucumber…

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Intrinsic and parametric regression models are of high interest for the statistical analysis of manifold-valued data such as images and shapes. The standard linear ansatz has been generalized to geodesic regression on manifolds making it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-19 Martin Hanik , Hans-Christian Hege , Anaja Hennemuth , Christoph von Tycowicz

We study the problem of identifying those cubic B\'ezier curves that are close in the L2 norm to planar elastic curves. The problem arises in design situations where the manufacturing process produces elastic curves; these are difficult to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-22 David Brander , J. Andreas Bærentzen , Ann-Sofie Fisker , Jens Gravesen

Spherical symmetry is ubiquitous in nature. It's therefore unfortunate that spherical system simulations are so hard, and require complete spheres with millions of interacting particles. Here we introduce an approach to model spherical…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-07 Pekka Koskinen , Oleg O. Kit

We uncover an unexpected connection between the physics of loop integrals and the mathematics of spline functions. One loop integrands are Laplace transforms of splines. This clarifies the geometry of the associated loop integrals, since a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Miguel F. Paulos

Quantum computing is greatly advanced in recent years and is expected to transform the computation paradigm in the near future. Quantum circuit simulation plays a key role in the toolchain for the development of quantum hardware and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yuan-Hung Tsai , Jie-Hong R. Jiang , Chiao-Shan Jhang

We consider a non-polynomial cubic spline to develop the classes of methods for the numerical solution of singularly perturbed two-point boundary value problems. The proposed methods are second and fourth order accurate and applicable to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-13 Islam Khan , Tariq Aziz

This paper presents a spline-based parameterisation framework for plane graphs. The plane graph is characterised by a collection of curves forming closed loops that fence-off planar faces which have to be parameterised individually. Hereby,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Jochen Hinz

Farin proposed a method for designing Bezier curves with monotonic curvature and torsion. Such curves are relevant in design due to their aesthetic shape. The method relies on applying a matrix M to the first edge of the control polygon of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-21 A. Cantón , L. Fernández-Jambrina , M. J. Vázquez-Gallo

In this paper, we focus on some characterizations for curves in the Galilean and Pseudo-Galilean space.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-03 Alper Osman Öğrenmiş , Münevver Yildirim Yilmaz , Mihriban Külahci

Functions on a bounded domain in scientific computing are often approximated using piecewise polynomial approximations on meshes that adapt to the shape of the geometry. We study the problem of function approximation using splines on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-27 Vincent Coppé , Daan Huybrechs

In this paper we investigate the problem of interpolating a B-spline curve network, in order to create a surface satisfying such a constraint and defined by blending functions spanning the space of bivariate $C^1$ quadratic splines on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-21 Catterina Dagnino , Paola Lamberti , Sara Remogna

This paper presents an overview of recent developments in the analysis of shapes such as curves and surfaces through Riemannian metrics. We show that several constructions of metrics on spaces of submanifolds can be unified through the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-19 Martin Bauer , Nicolas Charon , Laurent Younes

In this paper, we present a novel approach to the problem of merging of B\'ezier curves with respect to the $L_2$-norm. We give illustrative examples to show that the solution of the conventional merging problem may not be suitable for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Przemysław Gospodarczyk , Paweł Woźny