Helicoidal Cone
Helicoidal Cone is a ruled surface, given by a parametrisation, immersed.
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aperiodic def-parametric immersed implemented ruled tradition-classical
Formula
Properties
- Family
- ruled
- Given by
- a parametrisation
- Curvature
- no condition imposed
- Periodicity
- not periodic
- Ends
- 0
- Embedding
- immersed
- Fidelity
- exact
- Exactness
- elementary
Definition
the cone joining the origin to the helix (cos v, sin v, 0.5 v), two turns -- k = amp = 0.5 and turns = 2, the operator defaults
Sources
Chart reproduced numerically against the shipped implementation: fwd max 0.70 of tol, 0.1% of oracle beyond tol (tol floor 2.5 x 0.06159).
- G. W. Hart, "Curved, yet Straight: Stick Hyperboloids," Bridges 2023 Conference Proceedings, pp. 251-258.
- E. Jannasch & J. Macnab, "The Compound Helical Cone as Kinematic Trace," Bridges 2023 Conference Proceedings, pp. 15-22.
- F. A. Farris, "Spiral Ruled Surfaces," Bridges 2022 Conference
- Proceedings, pp. 289-292; and F. A. Farris, "Creating Symmetry" (Princeton Univ. Press, 2015).
- Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926), the ruled roof of the Sagrada Familia escoles; Hector Guimard (1867-1942). Both parametrizations, and the milk carton's, from R. Ferreol, "Encyclopedie des formes mathematiques remarquables" (mathcurve.com), chapters "surface de Gaudi", "surface de Guimard" and "berlingot".
- Milk carton: H. M. Cundy & A. P. Rollett, "Mathematical Models" (1951), 185-188.
- R. Ferreol, "Helicoidal cone (Cone helicoidal)", Encyclopedie des formes mathematiques remarquables, mathcurve.com; local mirror chapter ch1064_conehelicoidal (S:/data/math_art/references/websites/mathcurve/book/surfaces/ch1064_conehelicoidal.md).