Designing Sinhala characters using Bézier curves and B-Spline curves | |
| Author | Fernando, Gishantha I. |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.CS-02-03 |
| Subject(s) | Character--Design Computer fonts--Design |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, School of Advanced Technologies |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. CS-02-03 |
| Abstract | In character design in the computer industry, the mathematical models like Bezier curves and B-Spline curves play a very important role. Earlier characters were stored in the bit maps, and the designer had to keep separate file for each size of each font. But after Adobe introduced the Postscript fonts into the market, the fonts were represented by Bezier curves and those fonts can be scalable to any size. Further, this needs only one or two files for storing the entire font type. Existing methods of representing characters and theoretical background about Bezier curves and B-Spline curves are reviewed in this study. Further, we have developed a Visual Basic program called "Fontica" for designing characters by using Bezier and B-Spline curves. With the help of this new program we could design 10 Sinhala (my mother language) characters. In addition, we have proposed a new technique for approximating the degree reduction of Bezier curves. This approximation appears to perform satisfactory |
| Year | 2002 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Advanced Technologies (SAT) |
| Department | Department of Information and Communications Technologies (DICT) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Computer Science (CS) |
| Chairperson(s) | Huynh Ngoc Phien ; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Hoang Le Tien ;Borne, Federic; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Asian Development Bank ; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology |