Corner-operated Tran-similar (COTS) Maps, Patterns, and Lattices
| Autor: | Jarek Rossignac |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
0209 industrial biotechnology
Conjecture Similarity (geometry) Computer science 020207 software engineering 02 engineering and technology Unit square Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Planar graph symbols.namesake 020901 industrial engineering & automation Simple (abstract algebra) Bounded function Lattice (order) 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering symbols Variety (universal algebra) Algorithm |
| Zdroj: | ACM Transactions on Graphics. 39:1-14 |
| ISSN: | 1557-7368 0730-0301 |
| Popis: | The planar COTS map proposed here takes the unit square to a region R bounded by four log-spiral edges. It is Corner-operated (controlled by the four corners of R ) and Tran-similar (it maps translations to similarities). The tiles of the COTS map of a regular pattern are similar to each other. It may facilitate intuitive design and algorithmic optimization of procedural models of complex, possibly multi-resolution, lattices, because it affords constant-cost algorithms for Point-in-Lattice testing and for Total-Area-Calculations. We provide simple, closed-form expressions for evaluating the COTS map and its inverse from the positions of its corners. We conjecture that the COTS map may be useful in a variety of applications in Engineering, Architecture, and Art, and we provide a few illustrative examples of its possibilities. We compare it to related, previously proposed, planar maps and discuss several variations and extensions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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