Calculate Surface Curvature
Demonstrates how to calculate the principle curvature at a user-specified point on a surface.
partial class Examples
{
public static Result PrincipalCurvature(RhinoDoc doc)
{
ObjRef obj_ref;
var rc = RhinoGet.GetOneObject("Select surface for curvature measurement", true,
ObjectType.Surface, out obj_ref);
if (rc != Result.Success)
return rc;
var surface = obj_ref.Surface();
var gp = new Rhino.Input.Custom.GetPoint();
gp.SetCommandPrompt("Select point on surface for curvature measurement");
gp.Constrain(surface, false);
gp.Get();
if (gp.CommandResult() != Result.Success)
return gp.CommandResult();
var point_on_surface = gp.Point();
double u, v;
if (!surface.ClosestPoint(point_on_surface, out u, out v))
return Result.Failure;
var surface_curvature = surface.CurvatureAt(u, v);
if (surface_curvature == null)
return Result.Failure;
RhinoApp.WriteLine("Surface curvature evaluation at parameter: ({0}, {1})", u, v);
RhinoApp.WriteLine(" 3-D Point: ({0}, {1}, {2})",
surface_curvature.Point.X,
surface_curvature.Point.Y,
surface_curvature.Point.Z);
RhinoApp.WriteLine(" 3-D Normal: ({0}, {1}, {2})",
surface_curvature.Normal.X,
surface_curvature.Normal.Y,
surface_curvature.Normal.Z);
RhinoApp.WriteLine(string.Format(" Maximum principal curvature: {0} ({1}, {2}, {3})",
surface_curvature.Kappa(0),
surface_curvature.Direction(0).X,
surface_curvature.Direction(0).Y,
surface_curvature.Direction(0).Z));
RhinoApp.WriteLine(string.Format(" Minimum principal curvature: {0} ({1}, {2}, {3})",
surface_curvature.Kappa(1),
surface_curvature.Direction(1).X,
surface_curvature.Direction(1).Y,
surface_curvature.Direction(1).Z));
RhinoApp.WriteLine(" Gaussian curvature: {0}", surface_curvature.Gaussian);
RhinoApp.WriteLine(" Mean curvature: {0}", surface_curvature.Mean);
return Result.Success;
}
}
import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
surface_id,_,_,_,_,_ = rs.GetSurfaceObject("Select surface for curvature measurement")
point = rs.GetPointOnSurface(surface_id, "Select point on surface for curvature measurement")
u,v = rs.SurfaceClosestPoint(surface_id, point)
#point, normal, kappa_u, direction_u, kappa_v, direction_v, gaussian, mean =
surface_curvature = rs.SurfaceCurvature(surface_id, (u,v))
point, normal, kappa_u, direction_u, kappa_v, direction_v, gaussian, mean = surface_curvature
print("Surface curvature evaluation at parameter: ({0}, {1})".format(u,v))
print(" 3-D Point: ({0}, {1}, {2})".format(point.X, point.Y, point.Z))
print(" 3-D Normal: ({0}, {1}, {2})".format(normal.X, normal.Y, normal.Z))
print(" Maximum principal curvature: {0} ({1}, {2}, {3})".format(kappa_u, direction_u.X, direction_u.Y, direction_u.Z))
print(" Minimum principal curvature: {0} ({1}, {2}, {3})".format(kappa_v, direction_v.X, direction_v.Y, direction_v.Z))
print(" Gaussian curvature: {0}".format(gaussian))
print(" Mean curvature: {0}".format(mean))
