Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Surfaces: Catenoid helicoid


Catenoid helicoid

Catenoid-Helicoid is the family of a minimal surface consists of continuous and isometric deformation of a catenoid to a helicoid such that every member of the deformation family is minimal.

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Plane Curves: Straight line (polar)


Straight line (polar)

A line is a straight one-dimensional figure having no thickness and extending infinitely in both directions.

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3D Coordinate Systems: Paracylindrical


Paracylindrical

The Paracylindrical, also called parabolic cylindrical, coordinates are a three-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system that results from projecting the two-dimensional parabolic coordinate system in the perpendicular z-direction.

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Plane Curves: Spiral of Archimedes (polar)


Spiral of Archimedes (polar)

The Spiral of Archimedes (polar) is a plane curve.

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Space Curves: Seifferts spherical spiral


Seifferts spherical spiral

The Seifferts spherical spiral is a curve in three-dimensional space.

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Space Curves: Conical helix


Conical helix

A Conical helix is a curve in three-dimensional space. The Conic helix may be defined as a spiral on a conic surface, with the distance to the apex an exponential function of the angle indicating direction from the axis.

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Sunday, February 19, 2012

Plane Curves: Tschirnhausen cubic (polar)


Tschirnhausen cubic (polar)

Tschirnhaus's cubic is the negative pedal of a parabola with respect to the focus of the parabola. The caustic of Tschirnhaus's cubic where the radiant point is the pole is Neile's parabola.

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