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AML710 CAD LECTURE 15 1. Analytical Surfaces 2. Synthetic Surfaces From CAD/CAM point of view surfaces are as important as curves and solids. We need to have an idea of curves for surface creation. In the same way surfaces form the boundaries of the solids. Types Analytical surfaces Eg. Plane surfaces, sphere, ellipsoid Synthetic surfaces Eg. Bicubic surface, Bezier surface Application Modeling parts in CAD/CAM, representation of data surfaces like isothermal planes, stress surfaces/contours It is j ust an extension of representation of curves. We can represent a surface as a series of grid points inside its bounding curves. Surfaces can be in two-dimensional space (planar) or in three-dimensional space (general surfaces). Surface can be described using non-parametric or parametric equations Surfaces can be represented by equations to pass through all the data points (fitting) or have patches of them connected at the data points (approximations) NON-PARAMETRIC REPRESENTAION In general a surface or surface patch is represented analytically by an equation of the form P (x , y , z ) [x y z ] [x y f (x , y )] Where P is the position vector. The natural choice for f(x,y) is a polynomial. Thus for analytical representation of surfaces we can use equations of type y p q z f (x , y ) amn x m y n P(x,y,z) m 0 n 0 x PARAMETRIC REPRESENTAION In parametric surfaces a vector valued function P(u,v) of two variables is used as follows: P (u,v) [x y z ] [x (u,v) y (u,v) z (u,v