cchen@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Chao-Chi Chen) (10/17/90)
I am looking for some references on NURBS (Non-Uniform Rational B-spline Surfaces). Can anyone point me out any direction? Books, magzines, papers, technical reports.... Thanks! Charles C. Chen cchen@enuxha.eas.asu.edu Computer Science Department Arizona State University
joerg@cat.uucp (Markus Schichtel) (10/19/90)
Chao-Chi Chen (cchen@enuxha.eas.asu.edu) schrieb am 17.10.: > I am looking for some references on NURBS (Non-Uniform Rational B-spline Surf aces). Can anyone point me out any direction? Books, magzines, papers, technica l > reports.... Thanks! > > Charles C. Chen > cchen@enuxha.eas.asu.edu > Computer Science Department > Arizona State University The reference is right there at your campus namely Prof Hans Mittelmann who is involved in this exciting field of CAGD.I believe he is in the math dept. --- Markus Schichtel (joerg@cat.de) C.A.T. Kommunikations-System, Frankfurt
jch@Stardent.COM (Jan Hardenbergh @stardent) (10/24/90)
> From: cchen@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Chao-Chi Chen) > > I am looking for some references on NURBS (Non-Uniform Rational B-spline > Surfaces). Can anyone point me out any direction? Books, magzines, > papers, technical reports.... Thanks! Foley, van Dam, Feiner and Hughes, Computer Graphics Second Edition, have 4 pages on NURBS and then point off to other sources. If you really want to understand NURBS you need to work through splines and spline surfaces. There are two ( probably many more ) books for this: Farin, Gerald, Curves and Surfaces for Computer Aided Geometric Design, Second Edition, 1990, Academic Press, ISBN 0-12-249051-7. This book covers Rational Bezier and B-spline Surfaces (NURBS) briefly. It has good bit on rational curves. The Killer B's book - Bartels, Beatty, Barsky, Introduction to splines for Use in Computer Graphics & Geometric Modelling, 1987, Morgan Kuafman Publishers, ISBN 0-934613-27-3. This book does not get to rationals - but might be worth it to get two views on the basics. If anyone knows of a paper that explored NURBS from a PHIGS perspective I'd like to hear about it. -- -Jan "YON" Hardenbergh - jch@stardent.com uunet!stardent!jch Stardent Computer, Inc., 95 Wells Ave., Newton, MA 02159 (617)964-6228x261