Trivariate parametric B-splines for visualization of ocean data

Describes methods developed in the MIT Design Laboratory for the representation, fitting, interrogation and visualization of trivariate water column data. Features of this work include: reduced dimensional fitting algorithms for efficient data representation and reliable methods for visualizing continuous, trivariate parametric representations of data.

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