Computing exact rational offsets of quadratic triangular Bézier surface patches

  • Authors:
  • Bohumír Bastl;Bert Jüttler;Jiří Kosinka;Miroslav Lávička

  • Affiliations:
  • University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Mathematics, Univerzitní 8, 301 00 Plzeň, Czech Republic;Johannes Kepler University, Institute of Applied Geometry, Altenberger Street 69, 4040 Linz, Austria;Johannes Kepler University, Institute of Applied Geometry, Altenberger Street 69, 4040 Linz, Austria;University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Mathematics, Univerzitní 8, 301 00 Plzeň, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The offset surfaces to non-developable quadratic triangular Bezier patches are rational surfaces. In this paper we give a direct proof of this result and formulate an algorithm for computing the parameterization of the offsets. Based on the observation that quadratic triangular patches are capable of producing C^1 smooth surfaces, we use this algorithm to generate rational approximations to offset surfaces of general free-form surfaces.