194 research outputs found
Sparse implicitization by interpolation: Characterizing non-exactness and an application to computing discriminants
We revisit implicitization by interpolation in order to examine its properties in the context of sparse elimination theory. Based on the computation of a superset of the implicit support, implicitization is reduced to computing the nullspace of a numeric matrix. The approach is applicable to polynomial and rational parameterizations of curves and (hyper)surfaces of any dimension, including the case of parameterizations with base points.
Our support prediction is based on sparse (or toric) resultant theory, in order to exploit the sparsity of the input and the output. Our method may yield a multiple of the implicit equation: we characterize and quantify this situation by relating the nullspace dimension to the predicted support and its geometry. In this case, we obtain more than one multiples of the implicit equation; the latter can be obtained via multivariate polynomial gcd (or factoring).
All of the above techniques extend to the case of approximate computation, thus yielding a method of sparse approximate implicitization, which is important in tackling larger problems. We discuss our publicly available Maple implementation through several examples, including the benchmark of bicubic surface.
For a novel application, we focus on computing the discriminant of a multivariate polynomial, which characterizes the existence of multiple roots and generalizes the resultant of a polynomial system.
This yields an efficient, output-sensitive algorithm for
computing the discriminant polynomial
Reverse engineering of CAD models via clustering and approximate implicitization
In applications like computer aided design, geometric models are often
represented numerically as polynomial splines or NURBS, even when they
originate from primitive geometry. For purposes such as redesign and
isogeometric analysis, it is of interest to extract information about the
underlying geometry through reverse engineering. In this work we develop a
novel method to determine these primitive shapes by combining clustering
analysis with approximate implicitization. The proposed method is automatic and
can recover algebraic hypersurfaces of any degree in any dimension. In exact
arithmetic, the algorithm returns exact results. All the required parameters,
such as the implicit degree of the patches and the number of clusters of the
model, are inferred using numerical approaches in order to obtain an algorithm
that requires as little manual input as possible. The effectiveness, efficiency
and robustness of the method are shown both in a theoretical analysis and in
numerical examples implemented in Python
A matrix-based approach to properness and inversion problems for rational surfaces
We present a matrix-based algorithm for deciding if the parametrization of a
curve or a surface is invertible or not, and for computing the inverse of the
parametrization if it exists.Comment: 12 pages, latex, revised version accepted for publication in the
Journal AAEC
Implicitization of curves and (hyper)surfaces using predicted support
We reduce implicitization of rational planar parametric curves and (hyper)surfaces to linear algebra, by interpolating the coefficients of the implicit equation.
For predicting the implicit support, we focus on methods that exploit input and output structure in the sense of sparse (or toric) elimination theory, namely by computing the Newton polytope of the implicit polynomial, via sparse resultant theory.
Our algorithm works even in the presence of base points but, in this case, the implicit equation shall be obtained as a factor of the produced polynomial.
We implement our methods on Maple, and some on Matlab as well, and study their numerical stability and efficiency on several classes of curves and surfaces.
We apply our approach to approximate implicitization,
and quantify the accuracy of the approximate output,
which turns out to be satisfactory on all tested examples; we also relate our measures to Hausdorff distance.
In building a square or rectangular matrix, an important issue is (over)sampling the given curve or surface: we conclude that unitary complexes offer the best tradeoff between speed and accuracy when numerical methods are employed, namely SVD, whereas for exact kernel computation random integers is the method of choice.
We compare our prototype to existing software and find that it is rather competitive
The Newton Polytope of the Implicit Equation
We apply tropical geometry to study the image of a map defined by Laurent
polynomials with generic coefficients. If this image is a hypersurface then our
approach gives a construction of its Newton polytope.Comment: 18 pages, 3 figure
Compactifications of rational maps, and the implicit equations of their images
In this paper we give different compactifications for the domain and the
codomain of an affine rational map which parametrizes a hypersurface. We
show that the closure of the image of this map (with possibly some other extra
hypersurfaces) can be represented by a matrix of linear syzygies. We compactify
into an -dimensional projective arithmetically
Cohen-Macaulay subscheme of some . One particular interesting
compactification of is the toric variety associated to the
Newton polytope of the polynomials defining . We consider two different
compactifications for the codomain of : and .
In both cases we give sufficient conditions, in terms of the nature of the base
locus of the map, for getting a matrix representation of its closed image,
without involving extra hypersurfaces. This constitutes a direct generalization
of the corresponding results established in [BuseJouanolou03],
[BuseChardinJouanolou06], [BuseDohm07], [BotbolDickensteinDohm09] and
[Botbol09].Comment: 2 images, 28 pages. To appear in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebr
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