Curving Spirolaterals
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Robert J. Krawczyk: Curving Spirolaterals. In: Bridges 2001. Pages 29–36
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Spirolaterals are square spirals constructed of straight lines of increasing length. This paper investigates methods that can be used to transform their straight line turns into curves. From the tens of thousands of possible spiro laterals which have beell found, that are all closed, with and without reversed turns, a series of artworks is developed showing possible curving methods: curve jitting, splines, inversion, antiMercator and circular trallsforlllations, along with hypocycloid and epicycloid curves. These transformations are implemented using CAD methods and custom software. A series ofparameters are discussed which generate a variety of arn.llork.
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