Constructing a Swung Surface around a B-Spline Curve

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A swung surface is a generalization of a surface of revolution in which the rotation around an axis is governed by a trajectory curve. This Demonstration shows how to generate a swung surface from a B-spline surface. See the Details for a full explanation.

Contributed by: Shutao Tang (November 2015)
(Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an City, China)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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A swung surface is a generalization of a surface of revolution. Let

be a profile curve defined in the , plane, and let

be a trajectory curve defined in the , plane. Denoting the nonzero coordinate functions of and by , , , , and , we define the swung surface by:

.

Geometrically, is obtained by swinging about the axis and simultaneously scaling it according to ; is an arbitrary scaling factor. Fixing yields curves having the shape of but scaled in the and directions.

Fixing , the iso-parametric curve is obtained by rotating into the plane containing the vector and scaling the and coordinates of the rotated curve by the factor . The coordinate remains unscaled. It follows from the transformation invariance property of NURBS that has a NURBS representation given by

where

for , , and .

This Demonstration assumes that the degree of the B-spline curve is 3 and that the initial control points of profile curve and trajectory curve are , , respectively.

Reference

[1] L. Piegl and W. Tiller, The NURBS Book, 2nd ed., Berlin: Springer–Verlag, 1997 pp. 455–457.



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