Wayne Tiller

10.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
42 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Wayne Tiller is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wayne Tiller has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Computational Mechanics, 22 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and 10 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wayne Tiller's work include Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques (32 papers), Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (17 papers) and Manufacturing Process and Optimization (10 papers). Wayne Tiller is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques (32 papers), Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (17 papers) and Manufacturing Process and Optimization (10 papers). Wayne Tiller collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia. Wayne Tiller's co-authors include Les A. Piegl, Håvard Vold, Khairan Rajab, Weiyin Ma and Robert S. Doran and has published in prestigious journals such as Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society and IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.

In The Last Decade

Wayne Tiller

41 papers receiving 7.0k citations

Hit Papers

The NURBS Book 1995 2026 2005 2015 1995 1997 1995 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The NURBS Book
    1995 2.9k citations Les A. Piegl, Wayne Tiller profile →
  2. The NURBS Book
    1997 1.9k citations Les A. Piegl, Wayne Tiller profile →
  3. The NURBS Book
    1995 574 citations Les A. Piegl, Wayne Tiller profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wayne Tiller United States 24 5.2k 2.1k 1.8k 1.4k 1.2k 42 7.4k
Les A. Piegl United States 33 5.4k 1.1× 2.3k 1.1× 1.9k 1.1× 1.8k 1.3× 1.2k 1.0× 100 9.1k
Gerald Farin United States 33 5.0k 1.0× 1.1k 0.5× 2.6k 1.4× 1.5k 1.0× 517 0.4× 107 6.6k
Thomas W. Sederberg United States 39 7.8k 1.5× 1.4k 0.7× 4.3k 2.4× 2.0k 1.4× 1.3k 1.1× 99 9.7k
Denis Zorin United States 47 5.0k 1.0× 788 0.4× 4.0k 2.2× 1.5k 1.0× 479 0.4× 161 7.3k
Helmut Pottmann Austria 50 5.0k 1.0× 1.5k 0.7× 3.1k 1.7× 2.3k 1.6× 120 0.1× 215 8.2k
J. Austin Cottrell United States 7 8.4k 1.6× 1.9k 0.9× 1.9k 1.1× 321 0.2× 4.9k 4.1× 7 10.1k
Mark S. Shephard United States 43 3.7k 0.7× 537 0.3× 2.4k 1.3× 291 0.2× 1.6k 1.3× 265 7.0k
Mathieu Desbrun United States 53 7.5k 1.5× 404 0.2× 6.7k 3.8× 3.2k 2.2× 303 0.3× 183 10.6k
Alan H. Barr United States 40 4.8k 0.9× 425 0.2× 4.3k 2.4× 2.6k 1.8× 182 0.2× 67 7.8k
Tony DeRose United States 36 6.0k 1.2× 574 0.3× 5.6k 3.1× 4.2k 2.9× 140 0.1× 56 10.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Wayne Tiller

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wayne Tiller

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wayne Tiller

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wayne Tiller. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wayne Tiller based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Wayne Tiller. Wayne Tiller is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Piegl, Les A. & Wayne Tiller. (2007). Fitting NURBS spherical patches to measured data. Engineering With Computers. 24(2). 97–106. 6 indexed citations
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Tiller, Wayne. (2003). A Unified and Elegant Derivation of Bézier, B-spline, and other CAGD Concepts. Computer-Aided Design. 36(1). 92–92. 1 indexed citations
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Piegl, Les A. & Wayne Tiller. (2002). Biarc approximation of NURBS curves. Computer-Aided Design. 34(11). 807–814. 41 indexed citations
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Piegl, Les A. & Wayne Tiller. (2002). Algorithm for finding all k nearest neighbors. Computer-Aided Design. 34(2). 167–172. 42 indexed citations
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Piegl, Les A. & Wayne Tiller. (2002). Surface skinning revisited. The Visual Computer. 18(4). 273–283. 39 indexed citations
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Piegl, Les A. & Wayne Tiller. (2000). Reducing control points in surface interpolation. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 20(5). 70–75. 23 indexed citations
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Piegl, Les A. & Wayne Tiller. (2000). Curve Interpolation with Arbitrary End Derivatives. Engineering With Computers. 16(1). 73–79. 14 indexed citations
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Piegl, Les A. & Wayne Tiller. (2000). Least-Squares B-Spline Curve Approximation with Arbitary End Derivatives. Engineering With Computers. 16(2). 109–116. 45 indexed citations
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Piegl, Les A. & Wayne Tiller. (1999). Filling n -sided regions with NURBS patches. The Visual Computer. 15(2). 77–89. 36 indexed citations
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Piegl, Les A. & Wayne Tiller. (1999). Cross-Sectional Design with Boundary Constraints. Engineering With Computers. 15(2). 171–180. 10 indexed citations
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Piegl, Les A. & Wayne Tiller. (1999). Computing offsets of NURBS curves and surfaces. Computer-Aided Design. 31(2). 147–156. 88 indexed citations
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Piegl, Les A. & Wayne Tiller. (1997). The NURBS Book. 1942 indexed citations breakdown →
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Piegl, Les A. & Wayne Tiller. (1996). Algorithm for approximate nurbs skinning. Computer-Aided Design. 28(9). 699–706. 64 indexed citations
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Piegl, Les A. & Wayne Tiller. (1995). The NURBS Book. 574 indexed citations breakdown →
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Piegl, Les A. & Wayne Tiller. (1994). Software-engineering approach to degree elevation of B-spline curves. Computer-Aided Design. 26(1). 17–28. 28 indexed citations
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Tiller, Wayne, et al.. (1985). Comparison of Two Algebraic Methods for Curve/curve Intersection. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 1 indexed citations
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Tiller, Wayne, et al.. (1984). The Cayley method in computer aided geometric design. Computer Aided Geometric Design. 1(4). 309–326. 19 indexed citations
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Tiller, Wayne, et al.. (1984). Offsets of Two-Dimensional Profiles. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 4(9). 36–46. 141 indexed citations
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Tiller, Wayne, et al.. (1981). Extensions of Pure Positive Functionals on Banach ∗ -Algebras. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 82(4). 583–583. 1 indexed citations
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Tiller, Wayne. (1973). P-Commutative Banach ∗ -Algebras. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 180. 327–327. 5 indexed citations

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