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Axonometric View
Axonometric view of model
A projected view of 3-dimensional space that displays from one to three sides
of an object. The lines in an axonometric view do not converge to vanishing
points as they do in a perspective view, so lines that are parallel in 3D space
are parallel in the view. For this reason, diagonal and curved lines can appear
to be distorted.
Isometric on page 7823 and orthographic on page 7877 views are special cases
of axonometric views.
B-Spline
B-spline (basis spline) is a kind of spline generated by so-called basis functions.
The advantage of B-splines over
Bezier curves on page 7726 is that the control
vertices (CVs) of a B-spline affect only their local region of the curve or surface.
B-splines also compute faster than Bezier curves.
7722 | Glossary