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Cubic Bezier patch with adaptive subdivision

As we known that a cubic spline curve with control points a0 , a1 , a2 , a3 can be subdivided in two sub curves with control points b0 , b1 , b2 , b3 and c0 , c1 , c2 , c3 as shown to the left 
  function subdiv(a0,a1,a2,a3){
    var b1 = av(a0,a1), a12 = av(a1,a2), b2 = av(b1, a12),
        c2 = av(a2,a3), c1 = av(a12,c2), b3 = av(b2,c1);
    return [[a0,b1,b2,b3],[b3,c1,c2,a3]];
  }
  function av(v1, v2){
    return [.5*(v1[0]+v2[0]), .5*(v1[1]+v2[1]), .5*(v1[2]+v2[2])];
  }
where av(v1, v2) is the midpoint between v1 and v2.
A cubic Bezier spline patch can be subdivided recursively in 4 sub patches by subdivision of spline curves (see the page source). For parallel patch normals N0 , N1 , N2 , N3
    S = |N0 + N1 + N2 + N3 |2 = 16
therefore subdivision is stopped when 16 - S < eps.

This algorithm is simple but not very accurate. E.g. for eps = 0.1 you can see small holes between quads with different sizes (and subdivision orders).

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updated 14 June 2010