A survey of the representations of rational ruled surfaces

The rational ruled surface is a typical modeling surface in computer aided geometric design. A rational ruled surface may have different representations with respective advantages and disadvantages. In this paper, the authors revisit the representations of ruled surfaces including the parametric for...

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Autores: Yuan, Chun-Ming, Pérez Díaz, Sonia|||0000-0002-0174-5325, Shen, Li-Yong
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/50574
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10017/50574
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11424-020-0018-8
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Birational transformation
Characterization
Implicitization
Parametrization
Rational ruled surface
Reparametrization
Matemáticas
Mathematics
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Sumario:The rational ruled surface is a typical modeling surface in computer aided geometric design. A rational ruled surface may have different representations with respective advantages and disadvantages. In this paper, the authors revisit the representations of ruled surfaces including the parametric form, algebraic form, homogenous form and Pl¨ucker form. Moreover, the transformations between these representations are proposed such as parametrization for an algebraic form, implicitization for a parametric form, proper reparametrization of an improper one and standardized reparametrization for a general parametrization. Based on these transformation algorithms, one can give a complete interchange graph for the different representations of a rational ruled surface. For rational surfaces given in algebraic form or parametric form not in the standard form of ruled surfaces, the characterization methods are recalled to identify the ruled surfaces from them.