Rational two-parameter families of spheres and rational offset surfaces

DOI10.1016/j.jsc.2009.06.001zbMath1213.53008MaRDI QIDQ1034544

Martin Peternell

Publication date: 6 November 2009

Published in: Journal of Symbolic Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsc.2009.06.001

zbMATH Keywords

illumination; envelope; offset surface; rational parametrization; Laguerre geometry; parallel surface; PN surface; MOS surface; Pythagorean normal surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

68U05: Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects)

53A05: Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces

78A05: Geometric optics

53A40: Other special differential geometries

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