The shape of conchoids to plane algebraic curves

  • Authors:
  • Juan Gerardo Alcázar

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Curves and Surfaces
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The classical conchoid construction, well-known in Mathematics since its introduction more than 2200 years ago, has been recently revisited in the context of algebraic curves. Partially, the motivation for this has been the analogy, up to a certain extent, between the conchoid and a well-known transformation in CAGD, namely the offset transformation. In this paper, we contribute to this study by addressing properties on the shape of conchoids to plane algebraic curves. For this purpose we introduce the notions of exterior and interior conchoids, and we compare the shapes of these objects with that of the original curve.