Reading List: Week 7
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Course Material
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Read the following units of
online Course Notes
- Unit 5: Bézier Curves
Pay special attention to the following:
- Important property:
partition of unity, convex hull.
and affine invariance.
- Important algorithms: de Casteljau's
algorithm, curve subdivision, and
degree elevation.
- Unit 6: B-spline Curves
Pay special attention to the first three sections.
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Exam and Exercise
- Do
Exercise 3.
- Continue the Blossoming Principle related drill exercise.
You must do all of those simpler problems.
- Play with DesignMentor
to get a firm understanding of the important properties
and algorithms of Bézier curves.