AML710 Computer Aided Design

MinorII SemesterII - Session 2007-08

Time: 1 hr Marks: 25

Note: Answer all the questions. In Ql some answers may not be unique.
I. Give short appropriate answers to the following questions

The only requirement for knot vectors is that is a monotonically increasing series of
( a)
The parametric equation of an origin centered hemisphere is and the range of each'---")( (p<19~ t!

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(""'b) parameter is i- r.C'!>BC<:>.~r/
c) [n Cox-de Boor recursive detinition of B-spline basis Nj, I(t) has values with respective ranges .t !:';"e '::I tJ fI
- and -
d) Reversing the direction of will not change the shape of the curve, which follows the
shape of -
/ e) The parametric equation of cylindrical helix is and the same for conical helix
(' is

/f) [n multi-segment cubic splines, two approaches used to determine parameter spacing are - and
The cyclic end condition for a cubic spline requires that both and - be equal at the
(~) ends.
h) For a mapped surface Q(u,w), the relations that give degenerate cases corresponding to a line are
and the same for a point are
i) Write two conditions that reduce the B-spline surface to Bezier surface.
~ j) A Bezier blending function has its maximum value at and it is given by .
Y curves
of curves and and are
surfaces surfaces are invariant
invariant under Linderprojective transformations
transformations only. whereas other forms
I) The two approaches for B-spline subdivision are and
([ x [2)
:c:-Gonsider a riDrmal:zed-cubic-splinesegment ~W detilledbYEI[Qj~[3~W,P'J[3 000]
and P' 2[3 000]. Formulate a surface Q(t,s) by sweeping this curve by 10 units along the z=-axis'-
Determine a point on the surface corresponding to t=s=0.5. [Hint: You may use the follow'ing
normalized coefficient matrix.}
2 -2 1 1
- 3 3 - 2 -I
N=
0 0 1 0
1 0 0 0
(5)

~onsider the following surfac~ )

Q(B,~) = la~cosB b~smB ~- J; 0 ~ B ~ 27r; 0 ~ ~ ~ ~max
Find the Gaussian curvature of the above surface and comment on the answer.
AC - B2 l
K= 4 where[ABC]=[Q,xQw}QIlI [ Quw Qww]
IQu x Qwl
(4)

4. a) Fora surface Q(B,~) = [cas Bsin ~ sin Bsin ~ cos~] tind the expressions for the twist
vector and the normal.
Wor a B-spline curve with 4 polygon vertices write the knot vectors for the following cases
)rUniform knot vector when k=2,3,4; ~pen uniform knot vector when k=2,3,4
(2+2)
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