Title
Symmetries of Canal Surfaces and Dupin Cyclides.
Abstract
We develop a characterization for the existence of symmetries of canal surfaces defined by a rational spine curve and rational radius function. In turn, this characterization inspires an algorithm for computing the symmetries of such canal surfaces. For Dupin cyclides in canonical form, we apply the characterization to derive an intrinsic description of their symmetries and symmetry groups, which gives rise to a method for computing the symmetries of a Dupin cyclide not necessarily in canonical form. As a final application, we discuss the construction of patches and blends of rational canal surfaces with a prescribed symmetry.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.cagd.2017.10.001
Computer Aided Geometric Design
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Canal surfaces,Symmetries of surfaces,Rational surfaces,Blending
Journal
59
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0167-8396
1
0.37
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Juan Gerardo Alcázar19114.67
Heidi E. I. Dahl2112.84
Georg Muntingh3235.32