Offset curves of clothoidal splines

DOI10.1016/0010-4485(90)90048-HMaRDI QIDQ921850zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors D. S. Meek, D. J. Walton

Publication date 1990

Published in CAD. Computer-Aided Design (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-4485(90)90048-H

zbMATH Keywords

clothoid spiralscomputer-aided designcubic B-splinesOffset curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computer-aided design (modeling of curves and surfaces) (65D17)

Review text

Offset curves are important in some aspects of computer-aided design. Several authors have studied, and found, approximations to offset curves of cubic B-splines. Curves made of segments of clothoid spirals, arcs of circles, and straight line segments are used as centre lines of railways and highways, and offsets of these curves are used for rail or shoulder lines. This note points out that offsets of these curves are not much more complicated than the curves themselves, and can be rendered efficiently on a plotting device.

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