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Constructing isothermal curvature line coordinates on surfaces which admit them (English)
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19 March 2014
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An immersion is said to be conformal, or isothermal, if its first fundamental form is proportional to the first fundamental form of a plane. A surface is said to be parameterized in curvature line coordinates, if both the first and second fundamental forms are diagonal. A surface in \(\mathbb R^3\) is said to be parameterized in isothermic coordinates if the given parameterization is conformal and in curvature lines at the same time. The authors pose a problem: Starting from an arbitrary given immersion of an isothermic surface in the Euclidean 3-space, is there a simple method for obtaining an isothermic parameterization corresponding to it? A key idea is to apply the Gram-Schmidt ortogonalization and to multiply the velocity vectors (tangent frame) by a scaling function. The authors find a system of PDEs for the corresponding scaling function. The primary application consists of numerical algorithms for surface visualization. The algorithm is applied to unduloids.
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isothermal coordinates
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isothermic coordinates
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isothermic surfaces
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