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Standard Offset surfaces are defined as locus of the points which are at constant distance along the unit normal direction from the generator surfaces. Offset are widely used in various practical applications, such as tolerance analysis, geometric optics and robot path-planning. In some of the engineering applications, we need to extend the concept of standard offset to the generalized offset where distance offset is not necessarily constant and offset direction are not necessarily along the normal direction. Normally, a generalized offset is functionally more complex than its progenitor because of the square root appears in the expression of the unit normal vector. For this, an approximation method of its construction is necessary. In many situation it is necessary to fill or reconstruct certain function defined in a domain in which there is a lack of information inside one or several sub-domains (holes). In some practical cases, we may have some specific geometrical constrains, of industrial or design type, for example, the case of a specified volume inside each one of these holes. The problem of filling holes or completing a 3D surface arises in all sorts of computational graphics areas, like CAGD, CAD-CAM, Earth Sciences, computer vision in robotics, image reconstruction from satellite and radar information, etc. In this work we present an approximation method of filling holes of the generalized offset of a surface when there is a lack information in a sub-domain of the function that define it. We prove the existence and uniqueness of solution of this problem, we show how to compute it and we establish a convergence result of this approximation method. Finally, we give some graphical and numerical examples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we propose a variational method in order to solve Bratu's problem for two dimensions in an adequate space of biquadratic spline functions. The solution is obtained by resolving a sequence of boundary value problems. We study some characterizations of the functions of such sequence and we express them as some linear combination of biquadratic spline bases functions. We finish by showing some numerical and graphical examples in order to prove the validity and the effectiveness of our method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present an approximation problem of surfaces of a generalized offset surface with offset variable distances and directions. Such approximating surface fits some given data points and minimizes a Sobolev's semi-norm of order 3. The study of the new results, from a mathematical point of view, carefully establishing the proof of the convergence between the generalized offset surface and its approximating spline in an adequate parametric bicubic spline space. Moreover, the approximating spline function is computed and an estimation of the relative error is introduced. Finally, some numerical and graphic examples are shown in order to prove the useful and the effectiveness of our method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we present a variational approximation method for solving Troesch's problem. The existence and the uniqueness of this problem are shown. Moreover, we construct a sequence of approximate solutions of the problem from the number of knots of a partition of the domain. Such sequence converges to the exact solution of the problem. Finally, we analyze some graphical and numerical examples in order to show the efficiency of our method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with a construction problem of free-form curves from data constituted by some approximation points and a boundary value problem for an ordinary differential equation (ODE). The solution of this problem is called an ODE curve. We discretize the problem in a space of B-spline functions. Finally, we analyze a graphical example in order to illustrate the validity and effectiveness of our method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we define the notion of pseudo-parallel parameterized surfaces, extending that of offset surfaces. Then we consider the problem of fitting a set of scattered points with a surface pseudo-parallel to a given reference surface. We propose a method of solution based on a modified version of the classical smoothing Dm-splines over a bounded domain. The convergence of the method is established and some numerical examples are given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]