Surface Curve Design by Orthogonal Projection of Space Curves Onto Free-Form Surfaces

verfasst von
Joseph Pegna, Franz Erich Wolter
Abstract

A novel technique for designing curves on surfaces is presented. The design specifications for this technique derive from other works on curvature continuous surface fairing. Briefly stated, the technique must provide a computationally efficient method for the design of surface curves that is applicable to a very general class of surface formulations. It must also provide means to define a smooth natural map relating two or more surface curves. The resulting technique is formulated as a geometric construction that maps a space curve onto a surface curve. It is designed to be coordinate independent and provides isoparametric maps for multiple surface curves. Generality of the formulation is attained by solving a tensorial differential equation formulated in terms of local differential properties of the surfaces. For an implicit surface, the differential equation is solved in three-space. For a parametric surface the tensorial differential equation is solved in the parametric space associated with the surface representation. This technique has been tested on a broad class of examples including polynomials, splines, transcendental parametric and implicit surface representations.

Externe Organisation(en)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Typ
Artikel
Journal
Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions Of the ASME
Band
118
Seiten
45-52
Anzahl der Seiten
8
ISSN
1050-0472
Publikationsdatum
03.1996
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Werkstoffmechanik, Maschinenbau, Angewandte Informatik, Computergrafik und computergestütztes Design
Elektronische Version(en)
https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2826855 (Zugang: Geschlossen)