An approach for designing a developable surface through a given line of curvature

  • Authors:
  • Cai-Yun Li;Ren-Hong Wang;Chun-Gang Zhu

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Developable surface and line of curvature play an important role in geometric design and surface analysis. This paper proposes a new method to construct a developable surface possessing a given curve as the line of curvature of it. We analyze the necessary and sufficient conditions when the resulting developable surface is a cylinder, cone or tangent surface. Finally, we illustrate the convenience and efficiency of this method by some representative examples.