Isoptic surfaces of polyhedra

DOI10.1016/J.CAGD.2016.03.001zbMATH Open1418.51011arXiv1510.07718OpenAlexW2269090594MaRDI QIDQ1634809FDOQ1634809

Authors: Géza Csima, Jenö Szirmai 

Publication date: 18 December 2018

Published in: Computer Aided Geometric Design (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The theory of the isoptic curves is widely studied in the Euclidean plane $$ (see cite{CMM91} and cite{Wi} and the references given there). The analogous question was investigated by the authors in the hyperbolic $$ and elliptic $c{E}^2$ planes (see cite{CsSz1}, cite{CsSz2}, cite{CsSz5}), but in the higher dimensional spaces there are only a few result in this topic. In cite{CsSz4} we gave a natural extension of the notion of the isoptic curves to the $n$-dimensional Euclidean space $$ $(nge3)$ which are called isoptic hypersurfaces. Now we develope an algorithm to determine the isoptic surface $mathcal{H}_{cP}$ of a $3$-dimensional polytop $mathcalP$. We will determine the isoptic surfaces for Platonic solids and for some semi-regular Archimedean polytopes and visualize them with Wolfram Mathematica.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.07718

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zbMATH Keywords

polyhedronspherical geometryisoptic surfacesolid angle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects) (68U05) Euclidean analytic geometry (51N20)

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Cited In (13)

• Translation-like isoptic surfaces and angle sums of translation triangles in \(\mathbf{Nil}\) geometry
• Isoptic surfaces of segments in \(\mathbf{S}^2 \times \mathbf{R}\) and \(\mathbf{H}^2 \times \mathbf{R}\) geometries
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• Discrete Surfaces in Isotropic Geometry
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• An automated study of isoptic curves of an astroid
• Method for computing angle constrained isoptic curves for surfaces
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Uses Software

• Mathematica

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