Designing curved surfaces with analytical functions
β Scribed by D.J. de Groot
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 371 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0010-4485
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β¦ Synopsis
Shaping and computer-interactive design of curved surfaces of industrial objects, where artistic freedom is allowed for the outward appearance, is a time-consuming job particularly when feeding the computer program with the necessary geometrical input data. A design method is presented together with practical results of designed surfaces composed of simple analytical functions. Human input of geometrical and artistic data has been minimized. Smoothness and fairness are created by the surface composing functions.
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