Interpolation of Vertices and Their Normal Vectors with Quadratic B-Spline Surfaces

Interpolation to vertex positions is an essential issue in surface modeling, and interpolation to normal vectors has also important applications in some CAD/CAM areas. Properties of bi-quadratic B-spline surface are investigated by the subdivision approach, and the control mesh of bi-quadratic B-spline surface is constructed by employing Doo-Sabin subdivision to derive the parametric representation of interpolation surface. For enhancing the efficiency of handling mesh with larger scale data, we first partition the mesh into a number of sub-meshes and compute their corresponding control nets satisfying interpolatory conditions, then the sub-nets are integrated to form a whole net such that its bi-quadratic B-spline surface interpolates all given vertices and normal vectors.