Smooth surfaces from rational bilinear patches |
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Authors: | Ling Shi Jun Wang Helmut Pottmann |
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Affiliation: | 1. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia;2. Vienna University of Technology, 1040 Vienna, Austria |
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Abstract: | Smooth freeform skins from simple panels constitute a challenging topic arising in contemporary architecture. We contribute to this problem area by showing how to approximate a negatively curved surface by smoothly joined rational bilinear patches. The approximation problem is solved with help of a new computational approach to the hyperbolic nets of Huhnen-Venedey and Rörig and optimization algorithms based on it. We also discuss its limits which lie in the topology of the input surface. Finally, freeform deformations based on Darboux transformations are used to generate smooth surfaces from smoothly joined Darboux cyclide patches; in this way we eliminate the restriction to surfaces with negative Gaussian curvature. |
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Keywords: | Discrete differential geometry Architectural geometry Fabrication-aware design Asymptotic net Hyperbolic net Rational bilinear patch Darboux cyclide Darboux transformation |
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