Smooth polyhedral surfaces

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2020.107004zbMATH Open1433.52017arXiv1703.05318OpenAlexW3003318232MaRDI QIDQ2295477FDOQ2295477

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 13 February 2020

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Polyhedral surfaces are fundamental objects in architectural geometry and industrial design. Whereas closeness of a given mesh to a smooth reference surface and its suitability for numerical simulations were already studied extensively, the aim of our work is to find and to discuss suitable assessments of smoothness of polyhedral surfaces that only take the geometry of the polyhedral surface itself into account. Motivated by analogies to classical differential geometry, we propose a theory of smoothness of polyhedral surfaces including suitable notions of normal vectors, tangent planes, asymptotic directions, and parabolic curves that are invariant under projective transformations. It is remarkable that seemingly mild conditions significantly limit the shapes of faces of a smooth polyhedral surface. Besides being of theoretical interest, we believe that smoothness of polyhedral surfaces is of interest in the architectural context, where vertices and edges of polyhedral surfaces are highly visible.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05318

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zbMATH Keywords

smoothnesspolyhedral surfaceprojective transformationdiscrete differential geometryasymptotic directiondiscrete Gaussian curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedral manifolds (52B70) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05)

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