The generalised Cornu spiral and its application to span generation

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-47

  Ali, J M ^a   Tookey, R M ^b   Ball, J V ^b   Ball, A A ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Curve synthesis; Generalised Cornu spiral; Span generation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

CURVE SYNTHESIS; GENERALIZED CORNU SPIRAL; SPAN GENERATION;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 0033078081     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0427(98)00207-6     Document Type: Article

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