Texture Mapping on NURBS Surface

Abstract

[Abstract] Texture mapping allows high resolution details over 3D surfaces. Nevertheless, texture mapping has a number of unresolved problems such as distortion, boundary between textures or filtering. On the other hand, NURBS surfaces are usually decomposed into a set of Bézier surfaces, since NURBS surface can not be directly rendered by GPU. In this work, we propose a texture mapping directly on the NURBS surfaces using the RPNS (Rendering Pipeline for NURBS Surface) method, which allows the rendering of NURBS surface directly on the GPU. Our proposal facilitates the implementation while minimizing the cost of storage, mitigating distortions and stitching between textures.