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Automatic surface generation in computer aided design

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A technique for smoothly blending algebraic surfaces and a language for syntactic specification of objects are developed. Their use in automated design is illustrated by a gate valve example in which all fillets, edge roundings and joining surfaces are automatically constructed. The resulting object has an internal representation that is particularly amenable to interactive editing.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaca, New York, USA

    Christoph Hoffmann & John Hopcroft

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This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant ECS 83-12096 and MCS 82-17996

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Hoffmann, C., Hopcroft, J. Automatic surface generation in computer aided design. The Visual Computer 1, 92–100 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01898351

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