Fourier series representation of the coupler curves of spatial linkages

In this paper, the three-dimensional Fourier series which can describe the coupler curves of spatial linkages are derived. Based on the geometric properties of one-dimensional and two-dimensional Fourier series, a geometric constraint conditions are proposed to establish the three-dimensional Fourier series. The geometric meaning of mechanism for the three-dimensional Fourier series is put forward. Finally, an example is given to show the feasibility and the validity of this approach.     

Evolutes of dual spherical curves for ruled surfaces

E. Study found that there is a one‐to‐one correspondence between the oriented lines in Euclidean three space and the dual points of the dual unit sphere in dual three space, and it has wide applications in Engineering. In this paper, we investigate a ruled surface as a curve on the dual unit sphere by using E. Study's theory. Then we define the notion of evolutes of dual spherical curves for ruled surfaces and establish the relationships between singularities of these subjects and geometric invariants of dual spherical curves. Finally, we give an example to illustrate our findings. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Integration of barotropic vorticity equation over spherical geodesic grid using multilevel adaptive wavelet collocation method

In this paper, we present the multilevel adaptive wavelet collocation method for solving non-divergent barotropic vorticity equation over spherical geodesic grid. This method is based on multi-dimensional second generation wavelet over a spherical geodesic grid. The method is more useful in capturing, identifying, and analyzing local structure [1] than any other traditional methods (i.e. finite difference, spectral method), because those methods are either full or partial miss important phenomena such as trends, breakdown points, discontinuities in higher derivatives of the solution. Wavelet decomposition is used for interpolation and adaptive grid refinement on different levels.     

A note on constant geodesic curvature curves on surfaces

In this paper we are concerned with the structure of curves on surfaces whose geodesic curvature is a large constant. We first discuss the relation between closed curves with large constant geodesic curvature and the critical points of Gauss curvature. Then, we consider the case where a curve with large constant geodesic curvature is immersed in a domain which does not contain any critical point of the Gauss curvature.     

A Method for allowing Local Editing of Globally Optimized Splines

The present work describes an algorithm for modifying spline curves in the neighborhood of an editing point while preserving global smoothness properties. Current spline algorithms have either a graphical editing mode in which the user edits local properties of the spline, or a globally optimizing mode, in which the spline coefficients are determined such that overall properties e. g. smoothness, distance to support points, or physical behavior are optimized. With globally optimized splines, editing parameters at one point causes their transmission through the whole spline. Hence, the user has the impression that it is not possible to change the shape of the spline without disturbing the overall behavior. This can be circumvented by forcing the trajectory of the globally optimized curve to lie in the close vicinity of the original curve far away from the edited point. The present work describes an algorithm for local editing of spline curves that are produced by a global optimizer. (© 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Computer modelling and geometric construction for four-point synthesis of 4R spherical linkages

In this paper, computer modelling and geometric construction of Burmester curve for synthesis of spherical mechanisms is presented. Rigid shell guidance in four specified positions on a sphere is performed by a 4R spherical linkage. The synthesis of such a linkage requires obtaining the associated Burmester curves on the reference sphere. Based on the Burmester theory and beside the computational and modelling abilities of the symbolic mathematical software namely Maple, an accurate as well as fast procedure for geometric construction of Burmester curve is developed. In the first part, the concepts of orientation and position on the sphere, pole of the motion and the related parameters are extended for modelling by the Maple. In the second part, the concepts of complementary axis quadrilateral and its imaginary motion, the center and circle axis cones and Burmester curve are derived. In the final part, using the prepared procedure and through a numerical example, a 4R spherical linkage for guiding an antenna to meet four specified postures in a three-dimensional working space is synthesized.     

球面上的曲面插值

<正>1引言随着现代工业生产的飞速发展,航空、气象、环境监测等领域需要研究解决限制在曲面上的四维数据插值问题,即由有限个位置处的信息推测其它若干位置点的信息.例如,地球上某个地区的温度分布、降雨量分布、大气层的"温室效应"等;飞行器(飞机、火箭、导弹等)表面压力分布规律、肿瘤的生长规律等.这些在数学上都可归结为限制在曲面上的曲面插值与逼近问题.这个问题自Barnhill提出以后,人们针对限制在球面上     

Space filling curves and geodesic laminations

In this paper we study a class of connected fractals that admit a space filling curve. We prove that these curves are Hölder continuous and measure preserving. To these space filling curves we associate geodesic laminations satisfying among other properties that points joined by geodesics have the same image in the fractal under the space filling curve. The laminations help us to understand the geometry of the curves. We define an expanding dynamical system on the laminations.     

带形状参数的代数三角样条曲线曲面的构造（英文）

The construction of trigonometric B-spline curves with shape parameters has become the hotspot in computer aided geometric design.However,the shape parameters of the curves and surfaces are all global parameters and only meet with C~2 continuity in some previous papers.In order to provide more flexible approaches for designers,the algebraic and trigonometric spline(AT-spline) curves and surfaces are constructed as a generalization of the traditional cubic uniform B-spline curves and surfaces.AT-spline curves and surfaces not only inherit the properties of trigonometric B-spline curves,but also exhibit better performance when adjusting its local shapes through two shape parameters.Particularly,the AT-spline rotational surfaces with two local shape parameters are presented.When the shape parameters take special value,it can accurately represent the conic curve and surface.     

On the local and global properties of geodesics in pseudo-Riemannian metrics

The paper is a study of geodesics in two-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian metrics. Firstly, the local properties of geodesics in a neighborhood of generic parabolic points are investigated. The equation of the geodesic flow has singularities at such points that leads to a curious phenomenon: geodesics cannot pass through such a point in arbitrary tangential directions, but only in certain directions said to be admissible (the number of admissible directions is generically 1 or 3). Secondly, we study the global properties of geodesics in pseudo-Riemannian metrics possessing differentiable groups of symmetries. At the end of the paper, two special types of discontinuous metrics are considered.     

On grid generation for numerical models of geophysical fluid dynamics

A simple geometric condition that defines the class of classical (stereographic, conic and cylindrical) conformal mappings from a sphere onto a plane is derived. The problem of optimization of computational grid for spherical domains is solved in an entire class of conformal mappings on spherical (geodesic) disk. The characteristics of computational grids of classical mappings are compared for different spherical radii of geodesic disk. For a rectangular computational domain, the optimization problem is solved in the class of classical mappings and respective area of the spherical domain is evaluated.     

Control of the optimum synthesis process of a four-bar linkage whose point on the working member generates the given path

This paper presents the optimum synthesis of a four-bar linkage in which the coupler point performs a path composed of rectilinear segments and a circular arc. The Grashof four-bar linkage whose geometry provides minimum deviations from the given problem for certain parts of the crank cycle is chosen. The motion of the coupler point of the four-bar linkage is controlled within the given values of allowed deviations so that it is always in the prescribed environment of the given point on the observed segment. The synthesis process tends to bring only those path segments that are beyond the boundaries within the prescribed boundary deviations. During the synthesis, allowed deviations change from the initial maximum values to the given minimum ones. Groups of mechanisms realising satisfactory approximation to the desired motion can be obtained by the method of controlled decrease of allowed deviations with the application of the Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm.     

On parametrization of interpolating curves

In parametric curve interpolation there is given a sequence of data points and corresponding parameter values (nodes), and we want to find a parametric curve that passes through data points at the associated parameter values. We consider those interpolating curves that are described by the combination of control points and blending functions. We study paths of control points and points of the interpolating curve obtained by the alteration of one node. We show geometric properties of quadratic Bézier interpolating curves with uniform and centripetal parameterizations. Finally, we propose geometric methods for the interactive modification and specification of nodes for interpolating Bézier curves.     

Two-dimensional asymptotic expansions for large deviations of spherically distributed random vectors if the dominating point degenerates asymptotically

A geometric approach to asymptotic expansions for large-deviation probabilities, developed for the Gaussian law by Breitung and Richter [J. Multivariate Anal.,58, 1–20 (1996)], will be extended in the present paper to the class of spherical measures by utilizing their common geometric properties. This approach consists of rewriting the probabilities under consideration as large parameter values of the Laplace transform of a suitably defined function, expanding this function in a power series, and then applying Watson’s lemma. A geometric representation of the Laplace transform allows one to combine the global and local properties of both the underlying measure and the large-deviation domain. A special new type of difficulty is to be dealt with because the so-called dominating points of the large-deviation domain degenerate asymptotically. As is shown in Richter and Schumacher (in print), the typical statistical applications of large-deviation theory lead to such situations. In the present paper, consideration is restricted to a certain two-dimensional domain of large-deviations having asymptotically degenerating dominating points. The key assumption is a parametrized expansion for the inverse $\bar g^{ - 1} $ of the negative logarithm of the density-generating function of the two-dimensional spherical law under consideration.     

Transverse curves and chain curvature in the Heisenberg group

A chain is the intersection of a complex totally geodesic subspace in complex hyperbolic 2-space with the boundary. The boundary admits a canonical contact structure, and chains are distiguished curves transverse to this structure. The space of chains is analyzed both as a quotient of the contact bundle, and as a subset of ℂP². The space of chains admits a canonical, indefinite Hermitian metric, and curves in the space of chains with null tangent vectors are shown to correspond to a path of chains tangent to a curve in the boundary transverse to the contact structure. A family of local differential chain curvature operators are introduced which exactly characterize when a transverse curve is a chain. In particular, operators that are invariant under the stabilizer of a point in the interior of complex hyperbolic space, or a point on the boundary, are developed in detail. Finally, these chain curvature operators are used to prove a generalization of Louiville's theorem: a sufficiently smooth mapping from the boundary of complex hyperbolic 2-space to itself which preserves chains must be the restriction of a global automorphism.     

First order hermite interpolation with spherical Pythagorean-hodograph curves

The general stereographic projection which maps a point on a sphere with arbitrary radius to a point on a plane stereographically and its inverse projection have the Pythagorean-hodograph (PH) preserving property in the sense that they map a PH curve to another PH curve. Upon this fact, for given spatialC ¹ Hermite data, we construct a spatial PH curve on a sphere that is aC ¹ Hermite interpolant of the given data as follows: First, we solveC ¹ Hermite interpolation problem for the stereographically projected planar data of the given data in ?³ with planar PH curves expressed in the complex representation. Second, we construct spherical PH curves which are interpolants for the given data in ?³ using the inverse general stereographic projection.     

Minimum Path Problems in Normed Spaces: Reflection and Refraction

The paper deals with the existence and characterization of minimum or extremum paths connecting two given points in a vector space, which is divided by a barrier (a curve C if the space is 2-dimensional) into two parts with different norms. The global problem of existence of polygonal paths of shortest length is dealt with in Section 2. An example shows that, for a curve with a point of inflection, such paths may not exist. However, the existence of such paths is proved for a more restricted class of curves (Theorem 2.3). The notion of permissible polygonal paths is introduced, and it is shown that, for a very general class of curves, such paths of shortest length do exist (Theorem 2.2).Sections 3 and 4 deal with the local conditions at the intersection of the extremal path with the curve C. Theorem 4.1 establishes a geometric characterization of the point of intersection, and Eqs. (13) and (15) are formulas for the angles that the segments of the extremal path make with a fixed axis or with the normal to C at the point of intersection. The case where the unit circles of the tax norms are Euclidean circles with different radii leads to the traditional Snell law. Section 6 deals with the law of reflection at the curve C, which in the case of the Euclidean norm asserts the equality of the angles of incidence and reflection. The n-dimensional case, where the curve C is replaced by a hypersurface, is considered briefly in Section 7.     

Point Sets on the Sphere \mathbb{S}^{2} with Small Spherical Cap Discrepancy

In this paper we study the geometric discrepancy of explicit constructions of uniformly distributed points on the two-dimensional unit sphere. We show that the spherical cap discrepancy of random point sets, of spherical digital nets and of spherical Fibonacci lattices converges with order?N ^?1/2. Such point sets are therefore useful for numerical integration and other computational simulations. The proof uses an area-preserving Lambert map. A?detailed analysis of the level curves and sets of the pre-images of spherical caps under this map is given.