Reconstruction of surfaces of revolution with partial sampling

  • Authors:
  • Xiaoyuan Qian;Xuegang Huang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Applied Mathematics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, People's Republic of China;Department of Applied Mathematics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, People's Republic of China

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics - Special issue on proceedings of the international symposium on computational mathematics and applications
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Current surface reconstruction algorithms focus on complex surfaces or irregular surfaces. However, surfaces of revolution are very important in industrial applications and reconstruction of rotating surfaces are often required. To reconstruct a surface of revolution is to determine its axis and generatrix. The main obstacle is derived from, different from surfaces used in current surface reconstruction, the data of a surface of revolution are typically partially sampled. It makes the reconstruction of rotating surfaces a real interesting problem. In this paper, we present an algorithm to compute the axis and generatix of a surface of revolution in such partially sampled case.