posted on 2018-03-27, 12:00authored byNicholas A. Dickens
The widespread adoption of CAD in recent years has highlighted
problems in both curve and surface representation. There is a need for
algorithms to reduce the amount of data input, and for fuller understanding
of the underlying mathematics. This thesis falls naturally into two
parts; dealing respectively with automatic smooth curve interpolation
and surface construction. [Continues.]
Funding
Loughborough University of Technology, AID Committee. Science and Engineering Research Council and Pressed Steel Fisher Ltd. (Cowley, Oxford) (CASE studentship).
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Publication date
1986
Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.