598
Neighborhood,
6, 32, 147
Nested model,
465
Neural
networks, 534,
569
Node,
139
simple,
131
split,
131
Non-manifold,
35, 40
Nonlinear
constraint,
169
Normal
score-transform, 470,
511
Normalized
RV, 447
Nugget
effect,
464
Object,
35
Off-lap,
389
On-lap,
387
One-to-one,
33
Open,
60
Open set,
30
Orbit
definition,
6, 58
traversal,
75
Order
of an RF, 461
Orientability,
68, 69, 218
Orientation,
218
Osculating
circle,
201
paraboloid,
222
P-field,
488
Paleo-geographic coordinates,
406
Pants
algorithm,
119
Parameterization
barycentric,
251
canonic,
253
global,
193, 247, 253,
287
induced,
253
local, 248,
251
Parametric
curve,
199
surface,
203
Partition,
36, 152
Patch,
249,
319
Patch
algorithm,
110
Pdf,
447, 448,
452
Permeability tensor,
243
Permutation,
59, 71, 82
Piecewise, 196, 200, 245, 248, 310,
331,
419
Principal
components,
564
curvatures,
213
Probability,
445
Probability
distribution function, 447,
448,
452
Proportion map,
549
Pseudo-continuity,
12,
280,
305
Pseudo-distance
to
data,
191
Radial edge,
35
Radial tangent,
334
Random
Fourier series,
474
function,
459
sampling,
455
variable,
446
Range, 464,
466
Ray
tracing,
237
Recursive subdivision,
350
Region,
75, 83, 88, 91
Regular
curve,
200
grid,
122
surface,
205
Relative developability-index,
221
Relaxation,
174, 175,
558
Reparameterization, 200,
207-209
Resampling algorithm,
309
Restoration,
418
Restoration
vectors,
406
RFS,
474
Rigid,
280, 372, 416,
438
Roughness,
141
global,
13, 15
local,
15, 141
matrix interpretation,
142
Score-transform
theorem,
450
Sculpting,
107
Second
fundamental
form,
211
Second
fundamental tensor,
205
Semipositive
definite,
463
Sewn,
60
SGS,
516
Shannon theorem,
443
Shapes,
107
Sharpening
, 22
Sill,
466
Simple
curve,
200
Simplex,
40
Simulation,
445
Simulator
blending-based,
519
INDEX