POSTER: An Implementation of NURBS Curve Derivatives in Engineering Practice

Prochazkova,J., Prochazka,D.

Abstract:
Derivatives are a very important tool of computations in an engineering practice on graphics structures. B-spline functions are defined recursively, so the direct computation is very difficult. In this article new direct proof of the formula used for simpler direct computation is shown. The paper also presents own method of programming derivatives of NURBS curves by means of the proven formula which is implemented in German engineering software RFEM 3D.