• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.37-50
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• 2000

Using the complex formulation of plane curves which R. T. Farouki introduced, we can identify any plane polynomial curve with only a polynomial with complex coefficients. In this paper, using the well-known fundamental theorem of algebra, we completely factorize the polynomial over the complex number field C and from the completely factorized form of the polynomial, we find a new necessary and sufficient condition for a plane polynomial curve to be a Pythagorean-hodograph curve, obseving the set of all roots of the complex polynomial corresponding to the plane polynomial curve. Applying this method to space polynomial curves in the three dimensional Minkowski space $R^{2,1}$, we also find the necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial curve in $R^{2,1}$ to be a PH curve in a new finer form and characterize all possible curves completely.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.19-25
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• 2001

In this paper, we study the special geometric reparametization of the (plane polynomial) Pythagorean Hodograph curves in the view point of their roots. The PH curves are completely determined by the roots of their hodographs. we show that the loci of roots of the PH curves satisfy some interesting geometric properties.