Abstract
The problem of constructing a parametric triangular patch to smoothly connect three surface patches is studied. Usually, these surface patches are defined on different parameter spaces. Therefore, it is necessary to define interpolation conditions, with values from the given surface patches, on the boundary of the triangular patch that can ensure smooth transition between different parameter spaces. In this paper we present a new method to define boundary conditions. Boundary conditions defined by the new method have the same parameter space if the three given surface patches can be converted into the same form through affine transformation. Consequently, any of the classic methods for constructing functional triangular patches can be used directly to construct a parametric triangular patch to connect given surface patches with G1 continuity. The resulting parametric triangular patch preserves precision of the applied classic method.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 315-322 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Progress in Natural Science |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2008 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the National Key Basic Research 973 Program of China (Grant No. 2006CB303102) and the National Nature Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 60633030 and 60533060). We thank Professor Zhang C.M., for his instruction and source code of constructing triangular patch [12,13] .
Keywords
- Determination of interpolation conditions
- Parametric interpolation
- Triangular patch
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Materials Science