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Bézier surfaces of minimal area: The Dirichlet approach*1
Received 16 May 2002;
revised 16 July 2003;
accepted 27 July 2003. ;
Available online 3 October 2003.
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Abstract
The Plateau–Bézier problem consists in finding the Bézier surface with minimal area from among all Bézier surfaces with prescribed border. An approximation to the solution of the Plateau–Bézier problem is obtained by replacing the area functional with the Dirichlet functional. Some comparisons between Dirichlet extremals and Bézier surfaces obtained by the use of masks related with minimal surfaces are studied.
Author Keywords: Minimal surfaces; Bézier surfaces; Dirichlet functional; Permanence masks; Plateau problem






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