Title
Computing the intersection of two ruled surfaces by using a new algebraic approach
Abstract
In this paper a new algorithm for computing the intersection of two rational ruled surfaces, given in parametric/parametric or implicit/parametric form, is presented. This problem can be considered as a quantifier elimination problem over the reals with an additional geometric flavor which is one of the central themes in V. Weispfenning research. After the implicitization of one of the surfaces, the intersection problem is reduced to finding the zero set of a bivariate equation which represents the parameter values of the intersection curve, as a subset of the other surface. The algorithm, which involves both symbolic and numerical computations, determines the topology of the intersection curve as an intermediate step and eliminates extraneous solutions that might arise in the implicitization process.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1016/j.jsc.2005.02.008
Journal of Symbolic Computation
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Implicitization,Ruled surface,Surface-to-surface intersection
Journal
41
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
11
0747-7171
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.60
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mario Fioravanti1173.42
Laureano Gonzalez-Vega219917.77
Ioana Necula3844.85