Polygons with parallel opposite sides

DOI10.1007/S00454-013-9520-2MaRDI QIDQ368766zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marcos Craizer, Moacyr A. H. B. da Silva, Ralph C. Teixeira

Publication date 23 September 2013

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2442

zbMATH Keywords

discrete area evolutediscrete area parallelsdiscrete central symmetry setdiscrete equidistants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Affine differential geometry (53A15)

Abstract: In this paper we consider planar polygons with parallel opposite sides. This type of polygons can be regarded as discretizations of closed convex planar curves by taking tangent lines at samples with pairwise parallel tangents. For this class of polygons, we define discrete versions of the area evolute, central symmetry set, equidistants and area parallels and show that they behave quite similarly to their smooth counterparts.

Review text

The goal of the paper is to elaborate, in a specific framework, a discrete differential geometry theory corresponding, by a discretization process, to a certain smooth context. The authors build a good discretization model in which the convex planar polygons with parallel opposite sides (CPOS) may be retrieved as the discrete image of special closed convex planar curves. The digital representation is the result of considering tangent lines at samples with pairwise parallel tangents. In the framework of the CPOS, the authors define the concept of great diagonal and use it to construct the area evolute, the central symmetry and the cusps. They prove that all the properties of these geometric objects associated with a closed planar smooth curve are retrieved to the corresponding geometric objects associated to the CPOS obtained by the above mentioned digitization from the given curve. Similar results are obtained for equidistants, proving that, in this discrete framework, the branches of the equidistant symmetry set have cusps at the central symmetry set or cusps of the area evolute. More, given a CPOS, the authors prove the existence of another CPOS whose central symmetry set is exactly the area evolute of the first one and whose sides are parallel to the great diagonals of the given one. The uniqueness of this CPOS is investigated.

Recommendations

• Affine properties of convex equal-area polygons
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4192530
• Polygonal representations of digital sets
• Discrete cycloids from convex symmetric polygons
• Affine geometry of equal-volume polygons in 3-space

Cites work

• A geometric property of the boundary of symmetric convex bodies and convexity of flotation surfaces
• Affine properties of convex equal-area polygons
• Affine-Distance symmetry sets
• Affinely invariant symmetry sets
• Area Distances of Convex Plane Curves and Improper Affine Spheres
• Area-based medial axis of planar curves
• Bifurcations of the center of symmetry
• Discrete Differential Geometry
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1445217 (Why is no real title available?)
• Singularities of equidistants and global centre symmetry sets of Lagrangian submanifolds

Cited in

(5)

• Polygon offsetting with squares erected on its sides
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 124790 (Why is no real title available?)
• Iteration of involutes of constant width curves in the Minkowski plane
• The geometry of the centre symmetry set of a planar curve
• Envelopes of bisection lines of polygons

This page was built for publication: Polygons with parallel opposite sides

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q368766)