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A NURBS curve is defined by its order, a set of weighted control points, and a knot vector. [6] NURBS curves and surfaces are generalizations of both B-splines and Bézier curves and surfaces, the primary difference being the weighting of the control points, which makes NURBS curves rational.
Leading-order terms; NURBS order, a number one greater than the degree of the polynomial representation of a non-uniform rational B-spline; Order of convergence, a measurement of convergence; Order of derivation; Order of an entire function; Order of a power series, the lowest degree of its terms; Ordered list, a sequence or tuple
[note 1] When all knots belonging to the B-spline are distinct, its derivatives are also continuous up to the derivative of degree . If the knots are coincident at a given value of , the continuity of derivative order is reduced by 1 for each additional coincident knot. B-splines may share a subset of their knots, but two B-splines defined over ...
Trapezoidal rule — second-order method, based on (piecewise) linear approximation; Simpson's rule — fourth-order method, based on (piecewise) quadratic approximation Adaptive Simpson's method; Boole's rule — sixth-order method, based on the values at five equidistant points; Newton–Cotes formulas — generalizes the above methods
For example, in the case of S 3, φ(3) = 2, and we have exactly two elements of order 3. The theorem provides no useful information about elements of order 2, because φ(2) = 1, and is only of limited utility for composite d such as d = 6, since φ(6) = 2, and there are zero elements of order 6 in S 3.
[1] When is not a commutative ring, the idea of order is still important, but the phenomena are different. For example, the Hurwitz quaternions form a maximal order in the quaternions with rational co-ordinates; they are not the quaternions with integer coordinates in the most obvious sense. Maximal orders exist in general, but need not be ...
Let X be an affine space over a field k, and V be its associated vector space. An affine transformation is a bijection f from X onto itself that is an affine map; this means that a linear map g from V to V is well defined by the equation () = (); here, as usual, the subtraction of two points denotes the free vector from the second point to the first one, and "well-defined" means that ...
The relation on equivalence classes is a partial order. In mathematics, especially in order theory, a preorder or quasiorder is a binary relation that is reflexive and transitive. The name preorder is meant to suggest that preorders are almost partial orders, but not quite, as they are not necessarily antisymmetric.