Determining surfaces of revolution from their implicit equations

DOI10.1016/J.CAM.2015.05.006MaRDI QIDQ492068zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jan Vršek, Miroslav Lávička

Publication date 19 August 2015

Published in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.2723

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic surfacesalgorithmgeneratrixgeometric modellingrational surfacessurface recognitionsurfaces of revolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computer-aided design (modeling of curves and surfaces) (65D17)

Abstract: Results of number of geometric operations (often used in technical practise, as e.g. the operation of blending) are in many cases surfaces described implicitly. Then it is a challenging task to recognize the type of the obtained surface, find its characteristics and for the rational surfaces compute also their parameterizations. In this contribution we will focus on surfaces of revolution. These objects, widely used in geometric modelling, are generated by rotating a generatrix around a given axis. If the generatrix is an algebraic curve then so is also the resulting surface, described uniquely by a polynomial which can be found by some well-established implicitation technique. However, starting from a polynomial it is not known how to decide if the corresponding algebraic surface is rotational or not. Motivated by this, our goal is to formulate a simple and efficient algorithm whose input is a polynomial with the coefficients from some subfield of $mathbbR$ and the output is the answer whether the shape is a surface of revolution. In the affirmative case we also find the equations of its axis and generatrix. Furthermore, we investigate the problem of rationality and unirationality of surfaces of revolution and show that this question can be efficiently answered discussing the rationality of a certain associated planar curve.

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