Reconstruction of rational ruled surfaces from their silhouettes

05/28/2019
by   Matteo Gallet, et al.
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We provide algorithms to reconstruct rational ruled surfaces in three-dimensional projective space from the `apparent contour' of a single projection to the projective plane. We deal with the case of tangent developables and of general projections to 𝕡^3 of rational normal scrolls. In the first case, we use the fact that every such surface is the projection of the tangent developable of a rational normal curve, while in the second we start by reconstructing the rational normal scroll. In both instances we then reconstruct the correct projection to 𝕡^3 of these surfaces by exploiting the information contained in the singularities of the apparent contour.

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