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A Highly Accurate Approximation of Conic Sections by Quartic Bézier Curves

Received: 18 February 2016     Accepted: 26 February 2016     Published: 9 March 2016
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Abstract

A new approximation method for conic section by quartic Bézier curves is proposed. This method is based on the quartic Bézier approximation of circular arcs. We give the upper bound of Hausdorff distance between the conic section and the quartic Bézier curve, and also show that the approximation order is eight. And we prove that our approximation method has a smaller upper bound than previous quartic Bézier approximation methods. A quartic G2-continuous spline approximation of conic sections is obtained by using the subdivision scheme at the shoulder point of the conic section.

Published in Applied and Computational Mathematics (Volume 5, Issue 2)
DOI 10.11648/j.acm.20160502.11
Page(s) 40-45
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Keywords

Conic Section, Quartic Bézier Curve, Hausdorff Distance, Approximation, G2-Continuous, Subdivision Scheme

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  • School of Mathematics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China

  • School of Mathematics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China

  • School of Mathematics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China

  • Department of Mathematics, University of La Verne, La Verne, USA

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