Analytic and algebraic properties of canal surfaces

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 195, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 220-228

  Xu, Zhiqiang ^a   Feng, Renzhong ^b   Sun, Jia guang ^c  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Canal surfaces; Implicit equations; Self intersections

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GEOMETRY; GRAPH THEORY;

CANAL SURFACES; GAUSSIAN CURVATURE; IMPLICIT EQUATIONS; SELF INTERSECTIONS;

SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33745257551     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2005.08.002     Document Type: Article

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