Title of article
Pipe surfaces with rational spine curve are rational Original Research Article
Author/Authors
Wei Lü، نويسنده , , HELMUT POTTMANN، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1996
Pages
8
From page
621
To page
628
Abstract
The envelope of the one-parameter set of congruent spheres which are centered at the points of a curve S is a pipe surface with S as spine curve. We prove that pipe surfaces with rational spine curve always admit a rational parameterization and propose an algorithm for its computation.
Keywords
Rational surface , Rational parameterization , Pipe surface , Offset surface , Normal ringed surface , Blend surface , Pythagorean-hodograph curve
Journal title
Computer Aided Geometric Design
Serial Year
1996
Journal title
Computer Aided Geometric Design
Record number
1138767
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