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Beautiful video. The intro alone explains more in one minute than most full videos ever do. One thing that was not addressed was why Pierre Bezier promoted his
by Daub 4y ago
Beautiful video. The intro alone explains more in one minute than most full videos ever do.
One thing that was not addressed was why Pierre Bezier promoted his eponymous curves in the first place. Their first application was in the development of the body of the Citroen car. Just Google classic Citroen car to clearly see the use to which these curves were put.
- jacobolus 4y agoPierre Bézier worked at Renault where he developed CAD software using piecewise polynomial curves in the 1960s. Paul de Casteljau independently (starting in 1959) worked on the same subject at Citroën, but didn’t publish until later. De Casteljau’s control scheme is actually what we use today, not Bézier’s. We should probably call these De Castlejau curves or De Castlejau–Bézier curves if we want to give fair attribution. He does get his name on the De Castlejau algorithm (lerp, lerp, lerp, ...) for evaluating such curves.
- Daub 4y agoThanks for the clarification/correction. Gonna have to adjust my teaching material now :)
- skywal_l 4y ago> Pierre Bézier worked at Renault where he developed CAD software using piecewise polynomial curves in the 1960s. For a short demo of the UNISURF system (in french): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0_a6r2JaWQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0_a6r2JaWQ