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TitleAlgorithm for implicitizing rational parametric surfaces
Author(s) John F. Canny, Dinesh Manocha
TypeArticle in Journal
AbstractMany current geometric modeling systems use the rational parametric
form to represent surfaces. Although the parametric representation is
useful for tracing, rendering and surface fitting, many operations like surface intersection desire one of the surfaces to be represented implicitly. Moreover, the implicit representation can be used for testing
whether a point lies on the surface boundary and to represent an
object as a semi-algebraic set. Previously resultants and Grobner basis have been used to implicitize parametric surfaces. In particular, different formulations of resultants have been used to implicitize tensor
product surfaces and triangular patches and in many cases the resulting expression contains an extraneous factor. The separation of these extraneous factors can be a time consuming task involving multivariate factorization. Furthermore, these algorithms fail altogether if the
given parametrization has base points.
In this paper we present an algorithm to implicitize parametric surfaces. One of the advantages of the algorithm is that we do not need multivariate factorization. If a parametrization has no base points, the implicit representation can be represented as a determinant of a matrix, otherwise we use perturbation techniques. In the latter case we make use of GCD operation to compute the implicit representation. We also describe an efficient implementation of the algorithm based on iterpolation techniques.
Keywordsrational surfaces, implicitize, resultants, surface intersection, base points, parametric representation, implicit surfaces, semi-algebraic Set
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LanguageEnglish
JournalComputer Aided Geometric Design
Volume9
Number1
Pages25-51
Year1992
Translation No
Refereed No
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