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Relative Blending (2009)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Jarek Rossignac, A. Brian Whited, A. |
| Abstract | Solid models may be blended through filleting or rounding operations that typically replace the vicinity of concave or convex edges by blends that smoothly connect to the rest of the solid’s boundary. Circular blends, which are popular in manufacturing, are each the subset of a canal surface that bounds the region swept by a ball of constant or varying radius as it rolls on the solid while maintaining two tangential contacts. We propose to use a second solid to control the radius variation. This new formulation supports global blending (simultaneous rounding and filleting) operations and yields a simple set-theoretic formulation of the relative blending RB(A) of a solid A given a control solid B. We propose user-interface options, describe practical implementations, and show results in 2 and 3 dimensions. Key words: blends, variable radius blending, medial surfaces, Dupin cyclides 1. |
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| Publisher Date | 2009-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Radius Variation Solid Boundary Simple Set-theoretic Formulation Medial Surface Relative Blending Solid Model Practical Implementation Show Result Canal Surface New Formulation Support Global Blending Control Solid Convex Edge Relative Blending Rb User-interface Option Circular Blend Simultaneous Rounding Tangential Contact Variable Radius Blending |
| Content Type | Text |
