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Multi-degree splines are piecewise polynomial functions having sections of different degrees. For these splines, we discuss the construction of a B-spline basis by means of integral recurrence relations, extending the class of multi-degree…
Tile B-splines in $\mathbb{R}^d$ are defined as autoconvolutions of the indicators of tiles, which are special self-similar compact sets whose integer translates tile the space $\mathbb{R}^d$. These functions are not piecewise-polynomial,…
A systematic construction of higher order splines using two hierarchies of polynomials is presented. Explicit instructions on how to implement one of these hierarchies are given. The results are limited to interpolations on regular,…
In this paper a general theory for interpolation methods on a rectangular grid is introduced. By the use of this theory an efficient B-spline based interpolation method for spectral codes is presented. The theory links the order of the…
This article proposes a technique for the geometrically stable modeling of high-degree B-spline curves based on S-polygon in a float format, which will allow the accurate positioning of the end points of curves and the direction of the…
We explore extended B-splines as a stable basis for isogeometric analysis with trimmed parameter spaces. The stabilization is accomplished by an appropriate substitution of B-splines that may lead to ill-conditioned system matrices. The…
We describe some new univariate spline quasi-interpolants on uniform partitions of bounded intervals. Then we give some applications to numerical analysis: integration, differentiation and approximation of zeros.
The main aim of this article is to introduce sk-splines on R^n and establish representations of cardinal sk-splines with knots and points of interpolation on the sets AZ^n, where A is an arbitrary nonsingular matrix. Such sets of points are…
Easy to construct and optimally convergent generalisations of B-splines to unstructured meshes are essential for the application of isogeometric analysis to domains with non-trivial topologies. Nonetheless, especially for hexahedral meshes,…
In this paper we present a method for knot insertion and degree elevation of generalized B-splines (GB-splines) via the local representation of these curves as piecewise functions. The use of local structures makes the refinement routines…
Compactly supported shearlets have been studied in both theory and applications. In this paper, we construct symmetric compactly supported shearlet systems based on pseudo splines of type II. Specially, using B-splines, we construct…
In this short note we describe a simple adaptation of biharmonic surfaces to interpolate boundary cross-derivatives given in ribbon form, and compare with the recently proposed Generalized B-spline patches.
The novel Locally Refined B-spline (LR B-spline) surface format is suited for representing terrain and seabed data in a compact way. It provides an alternative to the well know raster and triangulated surface representations. An LR B-spline…
Porous structures are intricate solid materials with numerous small pores, extensively used in fields like medicine, chemical engineering, and aerospace. However, the design of such structures using computer-aided tools is a time-consuming…
We characterize unitary representations of braid groups $B_n$ of degree linear in $n$ and finite images of such representations of degree exponential in $n$.
Spinal curvature estimation is important to the diagnosis and treatment of the scoliosis. Existing methods face several issues such as the need of expensive annotations on the vertebral landmarks and being sensitive to the image quality. It…
Spline functions have long been used in numerical solution of differential equations. Recently it revives as isogeometric analysis, which offers integration of finite element analysis and NURBS based CAD into a single unified process.…
Methods of constructing trigonometric fundamental splines with constant sign and sign-changing convergence factors are given. An example and graphics illustrating the concepts of convergence and interpolation grids are given. Some methods…
We proposed a new penalized B-splines estimator, the general P-spline, to accommodate non-uniform B-splines on unevenly spaced knots. It is a complement to Eilers and Marx's standard P-spline tailored for uniform B-splines on equidistant…
We introduce a smooth B-spline discretization in polar coordinates on the unit disc that corrects the loss of regularity present at the origin caused by the coordinate singularity in standard tensor-product B-spline formulations. The method…