A Texture Lookup Approach to Bézier Curve Evaluation on the GPU (JCGT)

A peer-reviewed paper published in the Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques presents a technique for evaluating Bézier curves on the GPU using fixed-function linear texture interpolation hardware. By offloading curve evaluation to the texture interpolator, the method can improve performance in compute-bound GPU workloads. It extends naturally to Bézier surfaces and volumes, and supports advanced curve types including B-splines, NURBS, and rational polynomials. The paper also incorporates Seiler interpolation for improved efficiency and benchmarks performance and accuracy against polynomial-based shader evaluation.

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