Outline of The Algorithm
Suppose we want to evaluate the spline curve for a parameter value . We can express the curve as
where and
Due to the spline locality property,
So the value is determined by the control points ; the other control points have no influence. De Boor's algorithm, described in the next section, is a procedure which efficiently calculates the expression for .
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