From B-Spline Mesh Generation to Effective Visualizations for the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

Published

June 29, 2006

Author(s)

Bonita V. Saunders, Qiming Wang

Abstract

We discuss the use of tensor product B-splines to generate grids, or meshes, to facilitate the plotting of high level mathematical functions for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Digital Library of Mathematical Functions Project. The plot data is placed inside a web based format such as VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) to create interactive visualizations that allow users to carefully examine complicated function features such as zeros, branch cuts, poles and other singularities. We discuss the grid generation technique and look at its effectiveness in creating accurate visualizations.

Proceedings Title

Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Curves and Surfaces

Conference Location

Avignon, 1, FR

Conference Title

Sixth International Conference on Curves and Surfaces

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

3D visualization, B-splines, digital library, grid generation, mesh generation, special functions

Citation

Saunders, B. and Wang, Q. (2006), From B-Spline Mesh Generation to Effective Visualizations for the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions, Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Curves and Surfaces, Avignon, 1, FR, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=51122 (Accessed April 24, 2026)

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