Title :
G/sup 2/ blend surfaces and filling of N-sided holes
Author :
Schichtel, Markus
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math., Darmstadt Univ. of Technol., Germany
Abstract :
An approach to obtaining curvature-continuous blends of any parametrically given surface is presented. The approach offers several options to control the shape of the blend through geometric continuity. It lets the designer define linkage curves arbitrarily as parametric curves in the respective parameter domains. Moreover, the proposed transfinite interpolant can be adopted to fill an n-sided polygonal hole by a single patch.<>
Keywords :
CAD; computational geometry; surface fitting; blend surfaces; curvature-continuous blends; geometric continuity; linkage curves; n-sided polygonal hole; parameter domains; parametric curves; parametrically given surface; single patch; transfinite interpolant; Application software; Computer graphics; Couplings; Data structures; Filling; Shape control; Spline; Zirconium;
Journal_Title :
Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE
