The Derivative Vectors of a B-Spline
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This Demonstration shows up to the first three derivative vectors of a B-spline.
Contributed by: Shutao Tang (June 2015)
(Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an City, China)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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As described in [1], a B-spline curve of degree is defined by
, ,
where are the control points and the are the degree- B-spline basis functions (see [Related Links]) defined on the nondecreasing knot vector , where and .
The functions depend only on the knots given by the knot vector ; they are defined recursively by
.
Using the equation of the derivative of the basis function ,
,
.
The first and last terms evaluate to , which [1] takes to be 0. Thus
,
where . (1)
Now let be the knot vector obtained by dropping the first and last knots from ; that is,
( has knots) (2)
Use the property: The function computed at is computed at . Thus
, (3)
where the are defined by equation (1) and the are computed at .
Hence is a B-spline curve of degree .
Since is a B-spline curve, we can apply equations (1), (2), and (3) recursively to obtain higher derivatives. Letting , we write
.
Then
(4)
with ()
and .
In this Demonstration, assume the initial control points are , , , , , , and the knot vector is .
The derivatives are scaled down by to see them better.
References
[1] L. Piegl and W. Tiller, The NURBS Book, 2nd ed., Berlin: Springer–Verlag, 1997 pp. 93–94, 97–98.
[2] \:65bd\:6cd5\:4e2d. \:8ba1\:7b97\:673a\:8f85\:52a9\:51e0\:4f55\:8bbe\:8ba1\:4e0e\:975e\:5747\:5300\:6709\:7406B\:6837\:6761 CAGD&NURBS[M]\:ff0e\:5317\:4eac\:ff1a\:9ad8\:7b49\:6559\:80b2\:51fa\:7248\:793e. 1994 pp. 244–247.
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