SURFACES FOR COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF SPACE FORMS

Abstract

The design of airplanes, ships, automobiles, and so-called 'sculptured parts' involves the design, delineation, and mathematical description of bounding surfaces. A method is described which makes possible the description of free-form doubly curved surfaces of a very general kind. An extension of these ideas to hyper-surfaces in higher dimensional spaces is also indicated. This surface technique has been specifically devised for use in the Computer-Aided Design Project at M.I.T., and has already been successfully implemented here and elsewhere. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0663504

Entities

People

  • Steven A. Coons

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airplanes
  • Blending
  • Boundaries
  • Computations
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computers
  • Continuity
  • Contracts
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Fuselages
  • Geometry
  • Naval Architecture
  • Notation
  • Polynomials
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Graph Algorithms and Convex Optimization.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space