The octant of a sphere as a non-degenerate triangular Bézier patch

DOI10.1016/0167-8396(87)90007-0zbMath0646.41011OpenAlexW150433239MaRDI QIDQ1103804

B. Piper, Andrew J. Worsey, Gerald Farin

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Computer Aided Geometric Design (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-8396(87)90007-0

zbMATH Keywords

weightsstereographic projectionBézier pointsrational Bézier triangles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation by rational functions (41A20)

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