Recognizing implicitly given rational canal surfaces

DOI10.1016/J.JSC.2015.08.003zbMATH Open1359.14053arXiv1410.3628OpenAlexW2964326443MaRDI QIDQ898267FDOQ898267

Authors: Jan Vršek, Miroslav Lávička 

Publication date: 8 December 2015

Published in: Journal of Symbolic Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is still a challenging task of today to recognize the type of a given algebraic surface which is described only by its implicit representation. In~this paper we will investigate in more detail the case of canal surfaces that are often used in geometric modelling, Computer-Aided Design and technical practice (e.g. as blending surfaces smoothly joining two parts with circular ends). It is known that if the squared medial axis transform is a rational curve then so is also the corresponding surface. However, starting from a polynomial it is not known how to decide if the corresponding algebraic surface is rational canal surface or not. Our goal is to formulate a simple and efficient algorithm whose input is a~polynomial with the coefficients from some subfield of real numbers and the output is the answer whether the surface is a rational canal surface. In the affirmative case we also compute a rational parameterization of the squared medial axis transform which can be then used for finding a rational parameterization of the implicitly given canal surface.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.3628

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zbMATH Keywords

cyclicityalgebraic surfacescanal surfacesrational parameterizationsurface recognitionblending surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Computational aspects of algebraic surfaces (14Q10)

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