Shape interrogation for computer aided design and manufacturing

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According to the authors, `Shape interrogation' in general means the process of extracting information from a geometric model. After basics and an introduction into the differential geometry of curves and surfaces in the first three chapters, and a chapter on solving polynomial equations with an emphasis on interval arithmetic, certain shape interrogation tasks are treated in more detail. Chapter 5 deals with the intersection problem for submanifolds, the nature of which depends on the dimension of the parties involved, and on the available representation: parametric or implicit, and possibly polynomial or rational. Many cases are elaborated in detail. The next chapter deals with the computation of differential geometric properties of intersection curves. The topic of Chapter 7 is distance functions and their stationary points. Chapters 8 and 9 deal with interrogating differential properties of curves and surfaces up to order four, which includes principal curvature lines and umbilics. Chapter 10 treats the numerics of geodesic lines in surfaces. The final chapter is on offset curves and surfaces, their various properties and applications, and especially their singularities. The aim of this text is to provide an exhaustive list of tools and algorithms useful for shape interrogation of freeform curves and surfaces. Their effectivity depends on the end user's capability of solving systems of nonlinear equations, which is one reason for the authors' focus on robust polynomial solvers.





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