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A Primer on Bézier Curves – an open source online book explaining Bézier curves and associated graphics algorithms, with interactive graphics; Cubic Bezier Curves – Under the Hood (video) – video showing how computers render a cubic Bézier curve, by Peter Nowell; From Bézier to Bernstein Feature Column from American Mathematical Society
In the mathematical field of numerical analysis, De Casteljau's algorithm is a recursive method to evaluate polynomials in Bernstein form or Bézier curves, named after its inventor Paul de Casteljau. De Casteljau's algorithm can also be used to split a single Bézier curve into two Bézier curves at an arbitrary parameter value.
Paul de Casteljau (19 November 1930 – 24 March 2022) was a French physicist and mathematician. In 1959, while working at Citroën, he developed an algorithm for evaluating calculations on a certain family of curves, which would later be formalized and popularized by engineer Pierre Bézier, leading to the curves widely known as Bézier curves.
In the mathematical subfield of numerical analysis, de Boor's algorithm [1] is a polynomial-time and numerically stable algorithm for evaluating spline curves in B-spline form. It is a generalization of de Casteljau's algorithm for Bézier curves. The algorithm was devised by German-American mathematician Carl R. de Boor. Simplified ...
For higher degrees of curve, P0 P1 and P2 aren't defined by the grey lines anymore- they're defined by a chain of parent functions that go all the way up to the grey lines through the same algorithm. So these intermediate line segments show how Bezier curves are algorithmically constructed, although mathematically the curve can still be ...
The geometry of a single bicubic patch is thus completely defined by a set of 16 control points. These are typically linked up to form a B-spline surface in a similar way as Bézier curves are linked up to form a B-spline curve. Simpler Bézier surfaces are formed from biquadratic patches (m = n = 2), or Bézier triangles.
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Using the above points, we say that since the Bézier curve B is the limit of these polygons as r goes to , it will have fewer intersections with a given plane than R i for all i, and in particular fewer intersections that the original control polygon R. This is the statement of the variation diminishing property.