Involutorial space transformations associated with a rational ruled surface

The mu-basis of a rational ruled surface

The mu-basis of a planar rational curve is a polynomial ideal basis comprised of two polynomials that greatly facilitates computing the implicit equation of the curve. This paper defines a mu-basis for a rational ruled surface, and presents a simple algorithm for computing the mu-basis. The mu-basis consists of two polynomials p(x, y, z, s) and q(x, y, z, s) that are linear in x, y, z and degre...

Revisiting the [mu]-basis of a rational ruled surface

The μ-basis of a rational ruled surface P(s, t) = P0(s)+tP1(s) is defined in Chen et al. (Comput. Aided Geom. Design 18 (2001) 61) to consist of two polynomials p(x, y, z, s) and q(x, y, z, s) that are linear in x, y, z. It is shown there that the resultant of p and q with respect to s gives the implicit equation of the rational ruled surface; however, the parametric equation P(s, t) of the rat...

A Series of Involutorial Cremona Space Transformations D E F I N E D by a Pencil of Ruled Cubic Surfaces* by Amos Black

Covering Rational Ruled Surfaces

We present an algorithm that covers any given rational ruled surface with two rational parametrizations. In addition, we present an algorithm that transforms any rational surface parametrization into a new rational surface parametrization without affine base points and such that the degree of the corresponding maps is preserved.

Implicitization of rational ruled surfaces with -bases

Chen, Sederberg, and Zheng introduced the notion of a μ-basis for a rational ruled surface in Chen et al. (2001) and showed that its resultant is the implicit equation of the surface, if the parametrization is generically injective. We generalize this result to the case of an arbitrary parametrization of a rational ruled surface. We also give a new proof for the corresponding theorem in the cur...