High-order implicit blending surfaces of low degree

Abstract

The applicability of the so-called potential method for blending implicitly defined surfaces is extended. The extended method is able to produce blendings which are C k -continuous, where k may be chosen arbitrarily large. The blendings consist of piecewise algebraic surfaces of low degree. Specifically, the degree is k + 1 for so-called convex corners, and 2 k for an important class of non-convex corners. In general the degree is linear in k, the constant of proportionality depending on the geometry of the corner. The method is illustrated by a concrete example, where a C 2 blending surface of degree 4 is constructed for a certain non-convex corner.