%0 Journal Article %A Wen-Haw Chen %D 2011 %J International Journal of Mathematical and Computational Sciences %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 58, 2011 %T Improvement of the Shortest Path Problem with Geodesic-Like Method %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/1131 %V 58 %X This paper proposes a method to improve the shortest path problem on a NURBS (Non-uniform rational basis spline) surfaces. It comes from an application of the theory in classic differential geometry on surfaces and can improve the distance problem not only on surfaces but in the Euclidean 3-space R3 . %P 1615 - 1618