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ScrewBender: Smoothing Piecewise Helical Motions
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Alexander Powell, Jarek Rossignac, "ScrewBender: Smoothing Piecewise Helical Motions," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 56-63, January/February, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MCG.2008.14,
author = {Alexander Powell and Jarek Rossignac},
title = {ScrewBender: Smoothing Piecewise Helical Motions},
journal ={IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications},
volume = {28},
number = {1},
issn = {0272-1716},
year = {2008},
pages = {56-63},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCG.2008.14},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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KW - motion
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Alexander Powell, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jarek Rossignac, Georgia Institute of Technology
Although a piecewise helical (polyscrew) motion is continuous, velocities are typically discontinuous at control poses when the motion switches between screws. We obtain a smooth motion through polyscrew 4-point, B-spline, or Jarek subdivision, which are trivial to implement and can be animated in real time.

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Index Terms:
motion, screw, smoothing, subdivision, helical motion
Citation:
Alexander Powell, Jarek Rossignac, "ScrewBender: Smoothing Piecewise Helical Motions," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 56-63, Jan./Feb. 2008, doi:10.1109/MCG.2008.14
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