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Generalized partial differential equations for interactive design

Ugail, Hassan
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2007
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© 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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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.
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Ugail H (2007) Generalized partial differential equations for interactive design. International Journal of Shape Modeling. 13(2): 225-226.
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