Evaluation and properties of the derivative of a NURBS curve

Abstract In this paper we describe two natural ways to express the first derivative of a rational B-spline curve in terms of its control points and weights. These expressions generalise the established ones for non-rational curves and offer numerically stable methods for computing the derivative. Some useful properties are derived from one of them.

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