Computing Values and Derivatives of Bezier and B-spline Tensor Products

Stephen Mann, Tony D. DeRose

Abstract:

We give an efficient algorithm for evaluating Bezier and B-spline tensor products for both positions and normals. The algorithm is an extension of a method for computing the position and tangent to a Bezier curve, and is asymptotically twice as fast as the standard bilinear algorithm.

Available in CAGD, Vol 12, No. 1.