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Systolic architecture for B-spline surfaces

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B-spline surfaces are among the most commonly used types of surfaces for modeling objects in computer graphics and CAD applications. One of the time consuming operations in B-spline surface generation is that of inversion. An efficient algorithm is proposed for solving this problem. This algorithm is implemented on a systolic architecture in order to facilitate fast interactive surface design.

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 19104, Philadelphia, PA

    Venkatramana G. Ajjanagadde

  2. Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, 560 012, Bangalore, India

    L. M. Patnaik

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Ajjanagadde, V.G., Patnaik, L.M. Systolic architecture for B-spline surfaces. Int J Parallel Prog 15, 551–565 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01407413

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