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Rational Bézier surface is a widely used surface fitting tool in CAD. When all the weights of a rational Bézier surface go to infinity in the form of power function, the limit of surface is the regular control surface induced by some lifting function, which is called toric degenerations of rational Bézier surfaces. In this paper, we study on the degenerations of the rational Bézier surface with weights in the exponential function and indicate the difference of our result and the work of Garc´ıa-Puente et al. Through the transformation of weights in the form of exponential function and power function, the regular control surface of rational Bézier surface with weights in the exponential function is defined, which is just the limit of the surface. Compared with the power function, the exponential function approaches infinity faster, which leads to surface with the weights in the form of exponential function degenerates faster.
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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11671068, 11271060, 11601064, 11290143), Fundamental Research of Civil Aircraft (MJ-F-2012-04), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (DUT16LK38).
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Zhang, Y., Zhu, Cg. & Guo, Qj. Degenerations of rational Bézier surface with weights in the form of exponential function. Appl. Math. J. Chin. Univ. 32, 164–182 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11766-017-3457-9
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