The Quintic Bézier Approximation of Conic Curves
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Abstract
The conic curves cannot be accurately represented by polynomial curves. To solve this problem, this paper presents the approximation methods of conic curves by quintic Bézier curve. By analyzing the approximation error function, which is the determinant for the upper bound of the Hausdorff error, the first kind of approximation curve we got achieves G3 continuity at the endpoints, which better preserves the properties at the endpoints. The second one is G1 continuous. And the maximum value of the error function is minimum. The last one is G1 alsocontinuous and L1 thenorm is minimized. The curve is further extended to tensor product surface. The tensor product quintic Bézier surface is obtained to approximate conic surface. Finally, the effectiveness of this method is verified by numerical examples.
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