Re: Normal Disappear Problem
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- Subject: [mg55325] Re: Normal Disappear Problem
- From: Roland Franzius <roland.franzius at uos.de>
- Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 04:45:35 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Universitaet Hannover
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gouqizi.lvcha at gmail.com schrieb:
> Hi, All:
>
> I have the following parametric equation for an unit sphere:
>
> x = cos(u)sin(v)
> y = sin(u)sin(v)
> z = cos(v)
>
> 0<=u<2*Pi ; 0<=v<=Pi
>
> Then I use
>
> normal = (Dx/Du, Dy/Du, Dz/Du) CROSS (Dx/Dv, Dy/Dv, Dz/Dv) to get the
> normal vector.
>
> I get the follwoing after calculation (with normalization):
>
> normal = [sin(v) ^2 cos(u), sin(v)^2 sin(u), cos(u)^2 cos(v) sin(v)
> + sin(u)^2 cos(v) sin(v)]
>
> Now when u=0, v=0 , Normal = (0,0,0)! How can it be? We know the fact
> that a sphere should have normal everywhere.
Use normalized tangent vectors
X = {Cos[u]Sin[v],Sin[u]Sin[v],Cos[v]};
t1 = D[X, #] & /@ {u, v};
t2 = t1/Sqrt[Dot[#, #] & /@ t1] // TrigExpand // FullSimplify //
PowerExpand;
t3 = Cross @@ t2
{(-Cos[u])*Sin[v], (-Sin[u])*Sin[v], (-Cos[u]^2)*Cos[v] - Cos[v]*Sin[u]^2}
Dot[t3, t3] // FullSimplify
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The u-direction tangent vector t1[[1]] is 0 at the poles v=0,pi
corresponding to the fact of no east direction there. Normalizing t
makes the cross product normal unit vector constant even at the poles.
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Roland Franzius