Paul de Casteljau

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Paul de Casteljau (born 1930 in Besancon, France), a physicist and mathematician at Citroën, developed an algorithm for computation of a Bézier curve, in 1959. Author of the book Mathématiques et CAO. Vol. 2: Formes à pôles from Hermes. De Casteljau's algorithm is widely used although it might have gone through some modifications. The efficiency has been questioned as opposed to today's algorithm.

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(French)Paul de Casteljau, Courbes a poles, INPI, 1959
(French)Paul de Casteljau, Surfaces a poles, INPI, 1963
(French)Mathématiques et CAO. Vol. 2 : Formes à pôles, Hermes, 1986
(French)Les quaternions: Hermes, 1987
(French)Le Lissage: Hermes, 1990
POLoynomials, POLar Forms, and InterPOLation, September 1992, Mathematical methods in computer aided geometric design II, Academic Press Professional, Inc.
Andreas Müller, "Neuere Gedanken des Monsieur Paul de Faget de Casteljau", 1995
de Casteljau's autobiography : My time at Citroën, Computer Aided Geometric Design - Volume 16, Issue 7 - August 1999 - Pages 583-586