Surfaces from Circles

MaRDI QIDQ3499986zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alexander I. Bobenko

Publication date 3 June 2008

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1318

zbMATH Keywords

circle patternscircular netsdiscrete curvature linesdiscrete minimal surfacesdiscrete Willmore energyisothermic surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Möbius geometries (51B10) Circle packings and discrete conformal geometry (52C26) Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05)

Abstract: In the search for appropriate discretizations of surface theory it is crucial to preserve such fundamental properties of surfaces as their invariance with respect to transformation groups. We discuss discretizations based on M"obius invariant building blocks such as circles and spheres. Concrete problems considered in these lectures include the Willmore energy as well as conformal and curvature line parametrizations of surfaces. In particular we discuss geometric properties of a recently found discrete Willmore energy. The convergence to the smooth Willmore functional is shown for special refinements of triangulations originating from a curvature line parametrization of a surface. Further we treat special classes of discrete surfaces such as isothermic and minimal. The construction of these surfaces is based on the theory of circle patterns, in particular on their variational description.

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