This paper presents a method for interactive design by means of extending the PDE
based approach for surface generation. The governing partial differential equation is
generalized to arbitrary order allowing complex shapes to be designed as single patch
PDE surfaces. Using this technique a designer has the flexibility of creating and manipulating
the geometry of shape that satisfying an arbitrary set of boundary conditions.
Both the boundary conditions which are defined as curves in 3-space and the spine of the
corresponding PDE are utilized as interactive design tools for creating and manipulating
geometry intuitively. In order to facilitate interactive design in real time, a compact
analytic solution for the chosen arbitrary order PDE is formulated. This solution scheme
even in the case of general boundary conditions satisfies exactly the boundary conditions
where the resulting surface has an closed form representation allowing real time
shape manipulation. In order to enable users to appreciate the powerful shape design
and manipulation capability of the method, we present a set of practical examples.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/2642 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Ugail, Hassan |
| Publisher | World Scientific Publishing Company. |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, Published version |
| Rights | © 2007 World Scientific Publishing Company. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Electronic version of an article published as International Journal of Shape Modeling, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 225-226. © copyright World Scientific Publishing Company. http://www.worldscinet.com/ijsm/ijsm.shtml |
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