The Development of Log Aesthetic Patch and Its Projection onto the Plane

In this work, we introduce a new type of surface called the Log Aesthetic Patch (LAP). This surface is an extension of the Coons surface patch, in which the four boundary curves are either planar or spatial Log Aesthetic Curves (LACs). To identify its versatility, we approximated the hyperbolic paraboloid to LAP using the information of lines of curvature (LoC). The outer part of the LoCs, which play a role as the boundary of the hyperbolic paraboloid, is replaced with LACs before constructing the LAP. Since LoCs are essential in shipbuilding for hot and cold bending processes, we investigated the LAP in terms of the LoC’s curvature, derivative of curvature, torsion, and Logarithmic Curvature Graph (LCG). The numerical results indicate that the LoCs for both surfaces possess monotonic curvatures. An advantage of LAP approximation over its original hyperbolic paraboloid is that the LoCs of LAP can be approximated to LACs, and hence the first derivative of curvatures for LoCs are monotonic, whereas they are non-monotonic for the hyperbolic paraboloid. This confirms that the LAP produced is indeed of high quality. Lastly, we project the LAP onto a plane using geodesic curvature to create strips that can be pasted together, mimicking hot and cold bending processes in the shipbuilding industry.

Ribaucour surfaces of harmonic type

We introduce the class of Ribaucour surfaces of harmonic type (in short HR-surfaces) that generalizes the Ribaucour surfaces related to a problem posed by Élie Cartan. We obtain a Weierstrass-type representation for these surfaces which depends on three holomorphic functions. As application, we classify the HR-surfaces of rotation, present examples of complete HR-surfaces of rotation with at most two isolated singularities and an example of a complete HR-surface of rotation with one catenoid type end and one planar end. Also, we present a 5-parameter family of cyclic HR-surfaces foliated by circles in non-parallel planes. Moreover, we classify the isothermic HR-surfaces with planar lines of curvature.

Lines of Curvature for Log Aesthetic Surfaces Characteristics Investigation

Lines of curvatures (LoCs) are curves on a surface that are derived from the first and second fundamental forms, and have been used for shaping various types of surface. In this paper, we investigated the LoCs of two types of log aesthetic (LA) surfaces; i.e., LA surfaces of revolution and LA swept surfaces. These surfaces are generated with log aesthetic curves (LAC) which comprise various families of curves governed by . First, since it is impossible to derive the LoCs analytically, we have implemented the LoC computation numerically using the Central Processing Unit (CPU) and General Processing Unit (GPU). The results showed a significant speed up with the latter. Next, we investigated the curvature distributions of the derived LoCs using a Logarithmic Curvature Graph (LCG). In conclusion, the LoCs of LA surface of revolutions are indeed the duplicates of their original profile curves. However, the LoCs of LA swept surfaces are LACs of different shapes. The exception to this is when this type of surface possesses LoCs in the form of circle involutes.

Principal Foliations of Surfaces near Ellipsoids

The lines of curvature of a surface embedded in $\R^3$ comprise its principal foliations. Principal foliations of surfaces embedded in $\R^3$ resemble phase portraits of two dimensional vector fields, but there are significant differences in their geometry because principal foliations are not orientable. The Poincar\'e-Bendixson Theorem precludes flows on the two sphere $S^2$ with recurrent trajectories larger than a periodic orbit, but there are convex surfaces whose principal foliations are closely related to non-vanishing vector fields on the torus $T^2$. This paper investigates families of such surfaces that have dense lines of curvature at a Cantor set $C$ of parameters. It introduces discrete one dimensional return maps of a cross-section whose trajectories are the intersections of a line of curvature with the cross-section. The main result proved here is that the return map of a generic surface has \emph{breaks}; i.e., jump discontinuities of its derivative. Khanin and Vul discovered a qualitative difference between one parameter families of smooth diffeomorphisms of the circle and those with breaks: smooth families have positive Lebesgue measure sets of parameters with irrational rotation number and dense trajectories while families of diffeomorphisms with a single break do not. This paper discusses whether Lebesgue almost all parameters yield closed lines of curvature in families of embedded surfaces.

Generalized normal ruled surface of a curve in the Euclidean 3-space

In this study, we define the generalized normal ruled surface of a curve in the Euclidean 3-space E3. We study the geometry of such surfaces by calculating the Gaussian and mean curvatures to determine when the surface is flat or minimal (equivalently, helicoid). We examine the conditions for the curves lying on this surface to be asymptotic curves, geodesics or lines of curvature. Finally, we obtain the Frenet vectors of generalized normal ruled surface and get some relations with helices and slant ruled surfaces and we give some examples for the obtained results.

Development of Support System for Ship-Hull Plate Forming Using Laser Scanner

In this study, we developed a new system that outputs the additional press work procedures necessary to obtain the desired ship-hull surface. This study is unique in terms of determining the additional press work procedures required according to the current plate shape at any work stage by measuring the plate shape using a laser scanner. In the proposed method, a B-spline surface is constructed from a point cloud measured using a laser scanner, and the current plate shape is analyzed based on differential geometry. Additional press lines are estimated based on the difference in the normal curvature along the lines of curvature between the designed target surface and the current surface. We demonstrated the effectiveness of our proposed method through experiments at a shipyard. The proposed system may be used to enhance the efficiency of press work and is expected to be an effective tool for training beginners in the future.

Isophote curves on spacelike surfaces in Lorentz–Minkowski space

An isophote curve consists of a locus of surface points whose normal vectors make a constant angle with a fixed vector (the axis). In this paper, we define an isophote curve on a spacelike surface in Lorentz–Minkowski space [Formula: see text] and then find its axis as timelike and spacelike vectors via the Darboux frame. Besides, we give some relations between isophote curves and special curves on surfaces such as geodesic curves, asymptotic curves or lines of curvature.

Sweeping surfaces with Natural mate curve of a spatial curve in Euclidean 3-Space

In this paper, we introduce the notion of sweeping surfaces with Natural mate curve of a spatial curve in Euclidean 3-space E3 . We also show that the parametric curves on these surfaces are lines of curvature. Then, we derive the necessary and sufficient condition for the sweeping surface to become a developable ruled surface. In particular, we analyze the necessary and sufficient conditions when the resulting developable surface is a cylinder, cone or tangent surface. Finally, some representative curves are chosen to construct the corresponding developable surfaces which possessing these curves as lines of curvature.

A study on timelike circular surfaces in Minkowski 3-space

This paper studies a smooth one-parameter family of standard Lorentzian circles with fixed radius. Such a surface is called a timelike circular surface with constant radius. We call each circle a generating circle. A new type of timelike circular surfaces was identified and coined as the timelike tangent circular surface. The new timelike tangent circular surface has the property of all generating circles being lines of curvature and its Gaussian and mean curvatures being independent of the geodesic curvature of the spherical indicatrix.