Deformation is a powerful tool for geometric modeling and design. Such a toolcan be used to create a new shape from existing shape without restarting whole design process. Anew mathematical model for producing control...Deformation is a powerful tool for geometric modeling and design. Such a toolcan be used to create a new shape from existing shape without restarting whole design process. Anew mathematical model for producing controllable periodic deformations is proposed. By introducingcosine extension functions construct a shape operator matrix and then use the matrix to transformthe position vector of some points on the object surface so as to create the deformation effects.Because the cosine extension functions have a number of variable parameters with differentproperties, the method has corresponding interactive control means. The user can manipulate thoseparameters to get desirable periodic deformation effects. Experimental results show that the methodis feasible and applicable to engineering and research fields such as sheet metal forming bystamping and CAD.展开更多
基金This project is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.60273097) Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu, China (No.BK 2001408).
文摘Deformation is a powerful tool for geometric modeling and design. Such a toolcan be used to create a new shape from existing shape without restarting whole design process. Anew mathematical model for producing controllable periodic deformations is proposed. By introducingcosine extension functions construct a shape operator matrix and then use the matrix to transformthe position vector of some points on the object surface so as to create the deformation effects.Because the cosine extension functions have a number of variable parameters with differentproperties, the method has corresponding interactive control means. The user can manipulate thoseparameters to get desirable periodic deformation effects. Experimental results show that the methodis feasible and applicable to engineering and research fields such as sheet metal forming bystamping and CAD.
