Title
Watertight trimmed NURBS
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
12-18-2008
Abstract
This paper addresses the long-standing problem of the unavoidable gaps that arise when expressing the intersection of two NURBS surfaces using conventional trimmed-NURBS representation. The solution converts each trimmed NURBS into an untrimmed T-Spline, and then merges the untrimmed T-Splines into a single, watertight model. The solution enables watertight fillets of NURBS models, as well as arbitrary feature curves that do not have to follow iso-parameter curves. The resulting T-Spline representation can be exported without error as a collection of NURBS surfaces. © 2008 ACM.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
SIGGRAPH'08: International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 Papers 2008
Recommended Citation
Sederberg, T., Thomas Finnigan, G., Li, X., Lirp, H., & Ipson, H. (2008). Watertight trimmed NURBS. SIGGRAPH'08: International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 Papers 2008 Retrieved from https://repository.lsu.edu/eecs_pubs/809