SURFACES FOR COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF SPACE FORMS

  • Authors:
  • S. A. Coons

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SURFACES FOR COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF SPACE FORMS
  • Year:
  • 1967

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Abstract

The design of airplanes, ships, automobiles, and so-called "sculptured parts" involves the design, delineation, and mathematical description of bounding surfaces. A method is described which makes possible the description of free-form doubly curved surfaces of a very general kind. An extension of these ideas to hyper-surfaces in higher dimensional spaces is also indicated. This surface technique has been specifically devised for use in the Computer-Aided Design Project at M.I.T., and has already been successfully implemented here and elsewhere.