Yvon-Villarceau Circle Equivalents on Dupin Cyclides

Francesco de Comite (1, 2, 3)

1 CRIStAL - Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189
2 MINT - Methods and tools for gestural interactions
3 Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies

A torus contains four families of circles: parallels, meridians and two sets of Yvon-Villarceau circles. Craftworks and artworks based on Yvon-Villarceau circles can be very attractive. Dupin cyclides are images of tori under sphere inversion, so they contain the images of the torus circles families. I applied operations that are known to create effective artworks on tori to Dupin cyclides, and proved them to be feasible. The regularity and the hidden complexity of the objects I obtained make them very attractive. Reviving the 19th century's tradition of mathematical models making, I printed several models, which can help in understanding their geometry. The tools I developed can be generalized to explore transformations of other mathematical objects under sphere inversion. This exploration is just at its beginning, but has already produced interesting new objects.

Domaines: Traitement des images [eess.IV]; Géométrie algorithmique [cs.CG]; Géométrie algébrique [math.AG]

Francesco de Comite. Yvon-Villarceau Circle Equivalents on Dupin Cyclides. Bridges 2015: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture , Jul 2015, Baltimore, United States. ⟨hal-01258718⟩