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A parametric spline curve is defined whose restriction to each sub-interval belongs to a 4-dimensional piecewise Chebyshev subspace depending on coefficients which play the role of shape parameters.
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Laurent, PJ., Mazure, ML. & Maxim, V.T. Chebyshev splines and shape parameters. Numerical Algorithms 15, 373–383 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019114424971
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