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Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 19 No. 5, pp. 745-763


Boundary Control of Subdivision Surfaces Using an Open Uniform Quadratic Subdivision Scheme


Wei-Chung Hwang and Jung-Hong Chuang
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering 
National Chiao Tung University 
Hsinchu, 300 Taiwan


    The ability to control boundary behaviors is critical for the subdivision surface to become a useful representation in computer aided geometric design. Previous methods achieve boundary control by extending the boundary vertices of the control mesh, or by applying different subdivision rules to the boundary edges and vertices. This paper presents an open uniform quadratic subdivision scheme derived from the subdivision of open uniform B-spline surfaces. For meshes with 4-sided boundary and corner faces, the cross-tangent along the boundary curves can also be derived. The proposed scheme leads to a straightforward boundary control that enables two subdivision surfaces to be joined with C0 and C1-continuity.


Keywords: geometric modeling, subdivision surfaces, boundary control, ???parametric surfaces, blending surfaces

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