Adaptive contouring of three-dimensional surfaces

A Method of Bivariate Interpolation and Smooth Surface Fitting for Irregularly Distributed Data Points

Hiroshi Akima · ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software · 1978 · 742 citations · Full text

A method of bivariate interpolation and smooth surface fitting based on local procedures

Hiroshi Akima · Communications of the ACM · 1974 · 238 citations · Full text

Numerical Analysis, Engineering, Rectangular Grid +20

Computer-aided geometric design

Alan Ball · Computer-Aided Design · 1975 · 87 citations

Geometric Modeling, Geometry, Computer-aided Geometric Design +7

Automated contour mapping using triangular element data structures and an interpolant over each irregular triangular domain

C. M. Gold, T. D. Charters, J. Ramsden · 1977 · 70 citations

Engineering, Surface Estimation, Shape Analysis +21

Bézier polynomials over triangles and the construction of piecewise Cr polynomials

Gerald Farin · Brunel University Research Archive (BURA) (Brunel University London) · 1980 · 46 citations · Full text

Geometric Modeling, Geometric Interpolation, Geometric Algorithm +9