Abstract
Normalized totally positive (NTP) bases present good shape preserving properties when they are used in Computer Aided Geometric Design. Here we characterize all the NTP bases of a space and obtain a test to know if they exist. Furthermore, we construct the NTP basis with optimal shape preserving properties in the sense of (Goodman and Said, 1991), that is, the shape of the control polygon of a curve with respect to the optimal basis resembles with the highest fidelity the shape of the curve among all the control polygons of the same curve corresponding to NTP bases. In particular, this is the case of the B-spline basis in the space of polynomial splines. Further examples are given.
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