A Surface Family with a Common Asymptotic Null Curve in Minkowski 3-Space E 1 3

This approach is on constructing a surface family with a common asymptotic null curve. It has provided the necessary and sufficient condition for the curve to be an asymptotic null curve and extended the study to ruled and developable surfaces. Subsequently, the study has examined the Bertrand offsets of a surface family with a common asymptotic null curve. Lastly, we support the results of this approach by some examples.

Shape-adjustable developable generalized blended trigonometric Bézier surfaces and their applications

Developable surfaces have a vital part in geometric modeling, architectural design, and material manufacturing. Developable Bézier surfaces are the important tools in the construction of developable surfaces, but due to polynomial depiction and having no shape parameter, they cannot describe conics exactly and can only handle a few shapes. To tackle these issues, two straightforward techniques are proposed to the computer-aided design of developable generalized blended trigonometric Bézier surfaces (for short, developable GBT-Bézier surfaces) with shape parameters. A developable GBT-Bézier surface is established by making a collection of control planes with generalized blended trigonometric Bernstein-like (for short, GBTB) basis functions on duality principle among points and planes in 4D projective space. By changing the values of shape parameters, a group of developable GBT-Bézier surfaces that preserves the features of the developable GBT-Bézier surfaces can be generated. Furthermore, for a continuous connection among these developable GBT-Bézier surfaces, the necessary and sufficient $G^{1}$ G 1 and $G^{2}$ G 2 (Farin–Boehm and beta) continuity conditions are also defined. Some geometric designs of developable GBT-Bézier surfaces are illustrated to show that the suggested scheme can settle the shape and position adjustment problem of developable Bézier surfaces in a better way than other existing schemes. Hence, the suggested scheme has not only all geometric features of current curve design schemes but surpasses their imperfections which are usually faced in engineering.

G3 Shape Adjustable GHT-Bézier Developable Surfaces and Their Applications

In this article, we proposed a novel method for the construction of generalized hybrid trigonometric (GHT-Bézier) developable surfaces to tackle the issue of modeling and shape designing in engineering. The GHT-Bézier developable surface is obtained by using the duality principle between the points and planes with GHT-Bézier curve. With different shape control parameters in their domain, a class of GHT-Bézier developable surfaces can be established (such as enveloping developable GHT-Bézier surfaces, spine curve developable GHT-Bézier surfaces, geodesic interpolating surfaces for GHT-Bézier surface and developable GHT-Bézier canal surfaces), which possess many properties of GHT-Bézier surfaces. By changing the values of shape parameters the effect on the developable surface is obvious. In addition, some useful geometric properties of GHT-Bézier developable surface and the G1, G2 (Farin-Boehm and Beta) and G3 continuity conditions between any two GHT-Bézier developable surfaces are derived. Furthermore, various useful and representative numerical examples demonstrate the convenience and efficiency of the proposed method.

An overview of developable surfaces in geometric modeling

Background: A developable surface is a special ruled surface with vanishing Gaussian curvature. The study of developable surfaces is of interest in both academia and industry. The application of developable surfaces ranges from ship hulls, architecture to origami, clothes, and others, as they are suitable for the modeling of surfaces with materials that are not amenable to stretch like leather, paper, fiber, and sheet metal. Objective: We survey techniques and patents of developable surfaces in the field of geometric modeling. The theory, algorithms, and applications are discussed to provide a comprehensive summary for modeling developable surfaces. Methods: Prior methods that model smooth and discrete developable surfaces in diverse disciplines are collected and reviewed. In particular, our review focuses on C^2, C^1 and C^0 developable surfaces, which are driven by the problems and challenges in the industry. Results: Many papers and patents of developable surface modeling are classified in this review paper. It is found that remarkable developments and improvements have been achieved in both analytical computations and practical applications. Conclusion: Global piecewise-developable surfaces, exploration of shape space of developable surfaces, joint optimization of geometry and physics, and other fundamental problems should be further studied.

Propagation of curved folding: the folded annulus with multiple creases exists

In this paper we consider developable surfaces which are isometric to planar domains and which are piecewise differentiable, exhibiting folds along curves. The paper revolves around the longstanding problem of existence of the so-called folded annulus with multiple creases, which we partially settle by building upon a deeper understanding of how a curved fold propagates to additional prescribed foldlines. After recalling some crucial properties of developables, we describe the local behaviour of curved folding employing normal curvature and relative torsion as parameters and then compute the very general relation between such geometric descriptors at consecutive folds, obtaining novel formulae enjoying a nice degree of symmetry. We make use of these formulae to prove that any proper fold can be propagated to an arbitrary finite number of rescaled copies of the first foldline and to give reasons why problems involving infinitely many foldlines are harder to solve.

Bridging the gap between rectifying developables and tangent developables: a family of developable surfaces associated with a space curve

There are two familiar constructions of a developable surface from a space curve. The tangent developable is a ruled surface for which the rulings are tangent to the curve at each point and relative to this surface the absolute value of the geodesic curvature κ g of the curve equals the curvature κ . The alternative construction is the rectifying developable. The geodesic curvature of the curve relative to any such surface vanishes. We show that there is a family of developable surfaces that can be generated from a curve, one surface for each function k that is defined on the curve and satisfies | k | ≤ κ , and that the geodesic curvature of the curve relative to each such constructed surface satisfies κ g = k .