An ideal spline-wavelet family for curve design and editing

Subdivision schemes provide the most efficient and effective way to design and render smooth spatial curves. It is well known that among the most popular schemes are the de Rham–Chaikin and Lane–Riesenfeld subdivision schemes, that can be readily formulated by direct applications of the two-scale (or refinement) sequences of the quadratic and cubic cardinal B-splines, respectively. In more recent works, semi-orthogonal and bi-orthogonal spline-wavelets have been integrated to curve subdivision schemes to add such powerful tools as automatic level-of-detail control algorithm for curve editing and rendering, and efficient simulation processing scheme for global graphic illumination and animation. The objective of this paper is to introduce and construct a family of spline-wavelets to overcome the limitations of semi-orthogonal and bi-orthogonal spline-wavelets for these and other applications, by adding flexibility to the enhancement of desirable characters without changing the sweep of the subdivision spline curve, by providing the shortest lowpass and highpass filter pairs without decreasing the discrete vanishing moments, and by assuring robust stability.