MOTIVATING  GEOMETRY THROUGH
COMPUTATION  AND  VISUALIZATION
funded by NSF-CCLI grant DUE-0126687

 Principal Investigator
David L. Finn
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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EXERCISES to EXPLORE with this APPLET
In this applet, you create C2 cubic Bezier splines. These are created by placing the control points and then generated a piecewise cubic Bezier curve according to the rules described in the course notes.
  1. Play with creating C2 splines.
  2. What conditions need to satisfied at a joint point in order for two segments to be joined smoothly?
  3. Using C2 splines can you create a curve that is approximately a circle? If so how?