curves

readings

• • recommended

    • Catmull, E., & Clark, J. (1978). Recursively generated B-spline surfaces on arbitrary topological meshes. Computer-aided design, 10(6), 350-355. (ncsu)

    • DeRose, T., Kass, M., & Truong, T. (1998, July). Subdivision surfaces in character animation. In Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (pp. 85-94). ACM. (ncsu)

    • Marshner & Shirley. (2016). Chapter 15, Curves. Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, AK Peters. (ncsu)

  • optional

    • Takashi Wickes. 2018. An ode to the Bezier curve. Prototypr.io.

    • Alastair Townsend. 2015. On the spline. Alatown.com.

    • Noe, Rain. 2016. When splines were physical objects. Core77.

books

• • online spline book

demos

• • collections

    • index

    • Mike Kamerman's online spline book

  • curves

    • hermite

      • lior at codepen

      • desmos

    • bezier

      • Mike Kamerman's bezier, high order bezier

      • Jan Rabe's bezier curves

      • quad, cubic

      • interpolating curve

      • quadratic

      • joining

      • simple

    • catmull-rom

      • threejs 3d

    • b-spline

      • Mike Kamerman's b-spline, including uniform, non-uniform, nurbs

    • nurbs

      • threejs 3d

    • multiple types

      • interpolating spline (protovis with bezier and cardinal)

      • bezier & interpolating curve

      • bspline and interpolating

      • Pawangami's nurbs calculator

      • Richard Fuhr's behind scenes demo

      • Babylon.js on 3d curves

  • patches

    • parametric surfaces (not splines)

    • spline patch