Shape-adjustable generalized Bézier surfaces: Construction and it is geometric continuity conditions

Gang Hu, Cuicui Bo, Guo Wei and Xinqiang Qin

Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2020, vol. 378, issue C

Abstract: The construction of the generalized Bézier model with shape parameters is one of the research hotspots in geometric modeling and CAGD. In this paper, a novel shape-adjustable generalized Bézier (or SG-Bézier, for short) surface of order (m, n) is introduced for the purpose to construct local and global shape controllable free-form complex surfaces. Meanwhile, some properties of SG-Bézier surfaces and the influence rules of shape parameters, as well as the constructions of special triangular and biangular SG-Bézier surfaces, are investigated. Furthermore, based on the terminal properties and linear independence of SG-Bernstein basis functions, the conditions for G1 and G2 continuity between two adjacent SG-Bézier surfaces are derived, and then simplified them by choosing appropriate shape parameters. Finally, the specific steps and applications of the smooth continuity for SG-Bézier surfaces are discussed. Modeling examples show that our methods in this paper are not only effective and can be performed easily, but also provide an alternative strategy for the construction of complex surfaces in engineering design.

Keywords: SG-Bernstein basis functions; SG-Bézier surfaces; Shape parameter; Geometric continuity conditions; Surface design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2020.125215

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