The flattening of arbitrary surfaces with approximation by developable stripes

  • Authors:
  • Simon Kolmianič;Nikola Guid

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Maribor, Slovenia;Univ. of Maribor, Slovenia

  • Venue:
  • From geometric modeling to shape modeling
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The problem of surface flattening is an old and widespread problem. It can be found in cartography and in various industry branches. In cartography, this problem is already solved by various projections. In the industry, however, it is still present. In the article, some existent methods and the problems connected with them are given. We also present the new method based on generation of developable stripes, which can be unrolled without any distortion into the plane. In this way, the problem of overlapping of some parts of resulting flat pattern is eliminated. The overlapping problem is especially hard on the doubly curved surfaces. We show that this problem is successfully solved.