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CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Springer
A canal surface is an envelope of a one parameter family of spheres. In this paper we present an efficient algorithm for computing the implicit equation of a canal surface generat...
CAGD
2004
13 years 4 months ago
2004
Almost rotation minimizing parametrization of the canal surface is given. The basic building block of our approach is the curve approximation scheme that enables us to construct a...
CAD
2006
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2006
Springer
The minimum distance computation problem between two surfaces is very important in many applications such as robotics, CAD/CAM and computer graphics. Given two implicit algebraic ...
AAECC
2007
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract We describe a method to approximate a segment of the intersection curve of two implicitly defined surfaces by a rational parametric curve. Starting from an initial soluti...