Title
Projecting curves onto free-form surfaces
Abstract
This paper presents simple methods of projecting a space curve onto a surface. Here, the parallel projection and the central projection are particularly considered. We derive the differential equations of the projection curve on both parametrically and implicitly defined surface. The projection curve is obtained by numerically solving the initial-value problem for a system of first-order Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) in the parametric domain associated with the surface representation for parametric case or in 3D space for implicit case. Some examples are also given to demonstrate that the presented methods are effective and potentially useful in computer-aided design.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1504/IJCAT.2010.032204
IJCAT
Keywords
Field
DocType
parallel projection,ordinary differential equations,odes,computer aided design,cad,parametric surface
Vector projection,Graphical projection,Projection (mathematics),Orthographic projection,Dykstra's projection algorithm,Projection (set theory),Mathematical analysis,Control engineering,Projection method,Parallel projection,Geometry,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
37
2
0952-8091
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.44
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiao-ping Wang1113.38
Wei Wei230.44
Weizhong Zhang391.59