Lines of curvature and umbilical points for implicit surfaces

Computer Aided Geometric Design

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 395-409

  Che, Wujun ^a   Paul, Jean Claude ^b,c   Zhang, Xiaopeng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Curvature; Gaussian curvature; Implicit surface; Line of curvature; Mean curvature; Torsion; Umbilical point

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; SURFACES;

GAUSSIAN CURVATURE; IMPLICIT SURFACE; LINE OF CURVATURE; MEAN CURVATURE; UMBILICAL POINT;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 34547144681     PISSN: 01678396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cagd.2007.04.005     Document Type: Article

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