Curvature formulas for implicit curves and surfaces

  • Authors:
  • Ron Goldman

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX

  • Venue:
  • Computer Aided Geometric Design - Special issue: Geometric modelling and differential geometry
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Curvature formulas for implicit curves and surfaces are derived from the classical curvature formulas in Differential Geometry for parametric curves and surfaces. These closed formulas include curvature for implicit planar curves, curvature and torsion for implicit space curves, and mean and Gaussian curvature for implicit surfaces. Some extensions of these curvature formulas to higher dimensions are also provided.