5. Final remarks
As listed in Section 1, concerning geometric modeling, the normalized B-bases (of EC spaces that also comprise the constant functions) ensure many optimal shape preserving properties and algorithms. Moreover, they may also provide useful design or shape parameters that can arbitrarily be specified by the user or the engineer. In Section 3, we have seen that polynomial, trigonometric, hyperbolic or mixed EC spaces allow us to obtain the control point based exact description of many (rational) curves and surfaces that are important in several areas of applied mathematics. The investigated large classes of vector spaces also ensure the description of famous geometrical objects (like ellipses; epi- and hypocycloids; Lissajous curves; torus knots; foliums; rose curves; the witch of Agnesi; the cissoid of Diocles; Bernoulli’s lemniscate; Zhukovsky airfoil profiles; cycloids; hyperbolas; helices; catenaries; Archimedean and logarithmic spirals; ellipsoids; tori; hyperboloids; catenoids; helicoids; ring, horn and spindle Dupin cyclides; non-orientable surfaces such as Boy’s and Steiner’s surfaces and the Klein Bottle of Gray).