DocumentCode
1526210
Title
How many rational parametric cubic curves are there? I. Inflection points
Author
Blinn, James F.
Volume
19
Issue
4
fYear
1999
Firstpage
84
Lastpage
87
Abstract
In his never-ending quest to build intuition about the relationship between algebra and geometry, the author turns his attention to cubic curves. The basic question is this: what sorts of shapes can a given symbolic expression generate? The ultimate goal is to transform an arbitrary parametric cubic curve both geometrically and parametrically to match one of a set of canonical simple algebraic forms
Keywords
computational geometry; curve fitting; algebra; geometry; inflection points; rational parametric cubic curves; shapes; symbolic expression; Differential equations; Polynomials;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0272-1716
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/38.773968
Filename
773968
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