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Descriptive geometry
FAST-0A5Acad. year: 2010/2011
Perspective collineation, affinity, affinity projection of circle. Monge´s projection, orthogonal axonometry. 3D-curves - helices, some helical ruled surfaces. Developable surfaces, surfaces of revolution.
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1. Central and parallel projection. Perspective collineation and affinity. Curve affine to a circle. Triangle and trimmel construction of an ellipse, Rytz´s construction.
2. Construction Euclidean problems. System of basic problems. Monge´s projection – position problems.
3. Monge´s projection – metric problems. Introduction further projection planes. Displaying bodies.
4. Cutting prism, pyramid, cylinder, and conic surfaces. Intersections of the straight line with prism, pyramid, cylinder, and conic surfaces.
5. Sphere and its section, intersection with a straight line. Axonometry – classification.
6. Orthogonal axonometry – position problems, metric problems in co-ordinate planes. Method of Skuhersky.
7. Basics of the theory of curves and surfaces. Helix, its properties and construction.
8. Right closed and opened ruled helicoidal surfaces, their sections and tangent to the section curve.
9. Developable surfaces and their developments.
10. Developable surfaces given by two curves in a plane.
11. Surfaces of revolution and their sections. Tangent to the section curve.
12. Intersections of two surfaces of revolution I. Tangent to the intersection curve.
13. Intersections of two surfaces of revolution II.
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1. Focal properties of conics. Tangents from a given point and parallel to a given direction to conics. Constructions using focal properties.
2. Perspective collineation and perspective affinity. Construction of an ellipse affine to a circle. Tangents of an ellipse using affinity.
3. 3D Euclidean constructions using basic problems of descriptive geometry. Constructive problems in Monge´s projection.
4. Constructive problems in Monge´s projection. Displaying bodies.
5. Sections of prisms, pyramids, cylinders and cones in Monge´s projection.
6. Section of a sphere. Intersections of a straight line with the above bodies.
7. Orthogonal axonometry – constructive problems in coordinate planes.
8. Method of cuts. Some metric methods solved by Skuhersky´s method. Helix.
9. Helix in axonometry. Helicoidal conoid.
10. Developable surfaces – complanation of a cone, cylinder. Developable surfaces given by two planar curves.
11. Developable surfaces – continuation. Sections of two surfaces of revolution with a tangent to the section curve.
12. Intersections of two surfaces of revolution , tangent line to teh intersection curve.
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