A coons patch spanning a finite number of curves tested for variationally minimizing its area

DOI10.1155/2013/645368MaRDI QIDQ370105zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Daud Ahmad, Bilal Masud

Publication date 19 September 2013

Published in Abstract and Applied Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/645368

zbMATH Keywords

Coons patchmean curvatureminimal surfacenumerical implementationsurface modeling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Numerical aspects of computer graphics, image analysis, and computational geometry (65D18) Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects) (68U05)

Review text

Summary: In surface modeling a surface frequently encountered is a Coons patch that is defined only for a boundary composed of four analytical curves. In this paper we extend the range of applicability of a Coons patch by telling how to write it for a boundary composed of an arbitrary number of boundary curves. We partition the curves in a clear and natural way into four groups and then join all the curves in each group into one analytic curve by using representations of the unit step function including one that is fully analytic. Having a well-parameterized surface, we do some calculations on it that are motivated by differential geometry but give a better optimized and possibly more smooth surface. For this, we use an ansatz consisting of the original surface plus a variational parameter multiplying the numerator part of its mean curvature function and minimize with the respect to it the rms mean curvature and decrease the area of the surface we generate. We do a complete numerical implementation for a boundary composed of five straight lines, that can model a string breaking, and get about 0.82 percent decrease of the area. Given the demonstrated ability of our optimization algorithm to reduce area by as much as 23 percent for a spanning surface not close of being a minimal surface, this much smaller fractional decrease suggests that the Coons patch we have been able to write is already close of being a minimal surface.

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