Cubic TP B-Spline Curves with a Shape Parameter

Abstract

In this paper a new kind of splines, called cubic trigonometric polynomial B-spline (cubic TP B-spline) curves with a shape parameter, are constructed over the space spanned by As each piece of the curve is generated by three consecutive control points, they posses many properties of the quadratic B-spline curves. These trigonometric curves with a non-uniform knot vector are C1 and G2 continuous. They are C2 continuous when choosing special shape parameter for non-uniform knot vector. These curves are closer to the control polygon than the quadratic B-spline curves when choosing special shape parameters. With the increase of the shape parameter, the trigonometric spline curves approximate to the control polygon. The given curves posses many properties of the quadratic B-spline curves. The generation of tensor product surfaces by these new splines is straightforward.