A geometric product formulation for spatial Pythagorean hodograph curves with applications to Hermite interpolation

Authors:
Christian B. U. Perwass;Rida T. Farouki;Lyle Noakes
Affiliations:
Institut für Informatik und Praktische Mathematik, Christian Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, D-24098 Kiel, Germany;Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA;School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia
Venue:
Computer Aided Geometric Design
Year:
2007

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Abstract

A novel formulation for spatial Pythagorean hodograph (PH) curves, based on the geometric product of vectors from Clifford algebra, is proposed. Compared to the established quaternion representation, in which a hodograph is generated by a continuous sequence of scalings/rotations of a fixed unit vector n@?, the new representation corresponds to a sequence of scalings/reflections of n@?. The two representations are shown to be equivalent for cubic and quintic PH curves, when freedom in choosing n@? is retained for the vector formulation. The latter also subsumes the original (sufficient) characterization of spatial Pythagorean hodographs, proposed by Farouki and Sakkalis, as a particular choice for n@?. In the context of the spatial PH quintic Hermite interpolation problem, variation of the unit vector n@? offers a geometrically more-intuitive means to explore the two-parameter space of solutions than the two free angular variables that arise in the quaternion formulation. This space is seen to have a decomposition into a product of two one-parameter spaces, in which one parameter determines the arc length and the other can be used to vary the curve shape at fixed arc length.