SMOOTH SURFACE INTERPOLATION OVER ARBITRARY TRIANGULATIONS BY SUBDIVISION ALGORITHMS

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SMOOTH SURFACE INTERPOLATION OVERARBITRARY TRIANGULATIONSBY SUBDIVISION ALGORITHMS

A smooth interpolatory subdivision algorithm for the generation of surfaces over arbi-trary triangulations is introduced and its convergence properties over nonuniform triangulationsstudied. For uniform data, this method is a generalization of the analysis for univariatesubdivision algorithms and for nonuniform data, an extraordinary point analysis is introducedand the local subdivision matrix anaiysis presented. It is proved that the algorithm producessmooth surfaces over arbitrary triangular networks provided the shape parameters are kept with-in an appropriate range. Finally, two graphical examples of surface interpolation overnonuniform data are given to show the smoothing process of the algorithm.AMS (MOS): 65D05, 65D15,65D17.