• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.24 no.1_2
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• pp.521-528
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• 2007

We present a new proof of the characterization theorem for Minkowski Pythagorean-hodograph curves in the Minkowski spaces $\mathbf{R}^{n+1,m}$. For an polynomial curves $\mathbf{s}(t)=(x_1(t),...,\;x_{n+m}(t))$, we also find Minkowski Pythagorean-hodograph curves $\mathbf{r}(t)=(x_0(t),\;x_1(t),...,\;x_{n+m}(t))$. In case m=0, Minkowski Pythagorean-hodograph curves become Pythagorean-hodograph curves in the Euclidean spaces $\mathbf{R}^{n+1}$ and Theorems in this paper hold for these Pythagorean-hodograph curves.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.23 no.1_2
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• pp.73-86
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• 2007

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 spatial $C^1$ Hermite data, we construct a spatial PH curve on a sphere that is a $C^1$ Hermite interpolant of the given data as follows: First, we solve $C^1$ Hermite interpolation problem for the stereographically projected planar data of the given data in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with planar PH curves expressed in the complex representation. Second, we construct spherical PH curves which are interpolants for the given data in $\mathbb{R}^3$ using the inverse general stereographic projection.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.14 no.1_2
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• pp.405-413
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• 2004

Rational parameterization of curves and surfaces is one of the main topics in computer-aided geometric design because of their computational advantages. Pythagorean hodograph (PH) curves and Minkowski Pythagorean hodograph (MPH) curves have attracted many researcher's interest because they provide for rational representation of their offset curves in Euclidean space and Minkowski space, respectively. In [10], Kim presented the characterization of the PH curves in the Euclidean space and analyzed the relation between the class of PH curves and the class of rational curves. In this paper, we extend the characterization of PH curves in [10] into that of MPH curves in the general Minkowski space and consider some generalized MPH curves satisfying this characterization.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.13-23
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• 2012

In this paper, we present the geometric Hermite interpolation for planar Pythagorean-hodograph cubics for some general Hermite data.

• 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.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.53-68
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• 2013

We solve the geometric Hermite interpolation problem with planar Pythagorean-hodograph cubics. For every Hermite data, we determine the exact number of the geometric Hermite interpolants and represent the interpolants explicitly. We also present a simple criterion for determining whether the interpolants have a loop or not.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.26 no.1_2
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• pp.121-133
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• 2008

In this article, we define Minkowski Pythagorean-hodograph (MPH) curves in the Minkowski plane $\mathbb{R}^{1,1}$ and obtain $C^1$ Hermite interpolations for MPH quintics in the Minkowski plane $\mathbb{R}^{1,1}$. We also have the envelope curves of MPH curves, and make surfaces of revolution with exact rational offsets. In addition, we present an example of $C^1$ Hermite interpolations for MPH rational curves in $\mathbb{R}^{2,1}$ from those in $\mathbb{R}^{1,1}$ and a suitable MPH preserving mapping.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.69-73
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• 2010

We invoke the characterization of Pythagorean-hodograph polynomial curves and prove that it is impossible to parameterize any real curves, other than a straight line, by rational functions of its arc length.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.30 no.3_4
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• pp.381-393
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• 2012

In this paper, we show two ways of the time reparametrization of piecewise Pythagorean-hodograph $C^1$ Hermite interpolants. One is the time reparametrization with no shape change, and the other is that with shape change. We show that the first reparametrization does not depend on the boundary data and that it is uniquely determined by the size of parameter domain, up to the general cases. We empirically show that the second parametrization can cause the change of the shape of interpolant.

• 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.