Creating proper B-spline surface models is a very challenging task for designers in car-body surface design.Due to the tensor-product structure of B-spline surface,some undesirable issues of the redundant control poin...Creating proper B-spline surface models is a very challenging task for designers in car-body surface design.Due to the tensor-product structure of B-spline surface,some undesirable issues of the redundant control points addition,incomplete surface definition and the difficulty of trimming boundary alteration frequently occur,when designing the car-body surface with B-spline surfaces in local-feature-lines construction,full-boundary-merging and visual surface trimming.A more efficient approach is proposed to design the car-body surface by replacing B-spline surface with classical T-spline surface.With the local refinability and multilateral definition offered by Tspline surface,those designing issues related with B-spline surface can be overcomed.Finally,modeling examples of the door,hood and rear-window are given to demonstrate the advantage of T-spline surface over B-spline surface in car-body surface design.展开更多
文摘Creating proper B-spline surface models is a very challenging task for designers in car-body surface design.Due to the tensor-product structure of B-spline surface,some undesirable issues of the redundant control points addition,incomplete surface definition and the difficulty of trimming boundary alteration frequently occur,when designing the car-body surface with B-spline surfaces in local-feature-lines construction,full-boundary-merging and visual surface trimming.A more efficient approach is proposed to design the car-body surface by replacing B-spline surface with classical T-spline surface.With the local refinability and multilateral definition offered by Tspline surface,those designing issues related with B-spline surface can be overcomed.Finally,modeling examples of the door,hood and rear-window are given to demonstrate the advantage of T-spline surface over B-spline surface in car-body surface design.
