Abstract
A class of cubic Bézier-type curves based on the blending of algebraic and trigonometric polynomials, briefly CAT Bézier curves, is presented in this paper. The CAT Bézier curves retain the main superiority of cubic Bézier curves. The CAT Bézier curves can approximate the Bézier curves from the both sides, and the shapes of the curves can be adjusted totally or locally. With the shape parameters chosen properly, the introduced curves can represent some transcendental curves exactly.