Tapering (mathematics)

Short description: Kind of shape deformation

In mathematics, physics, and theoretical computer graphics, tapering is a kind of shape deformation.[1][2] Just as an affine transformation, such as scaling or shearing, is a first-order model of shape deformation, tapering is a higher order deformation just as twisting and bending. Tapering can be thought of as non-constant scaling by a given tapering function. The resultant deformations can be linear or nonlinear.

To create a nonlinear taper, instead of scaling in x and y for all z with constants as in:

q=[a000b0001]p,

let a and b be functions of z so that:

q=[a(pz)000b(pz)0001]p.

An example of a linear taper is a(z)=α0+α1z, and a quadratic taper a(z)=α0+α1z+α2z2.

As another example, if the parametric equation of a cube were given by ƒ(t) = (x(t), y(t), z(t)), a nonlinear taper could be applied so that the cube's volume slowly decreases (or tapers) as the function moves in the positive z direction. For the given cube, an example of a nonlinear taper along z would be if, for instance, the function T(z) = 1/(a + bt) were applied to the cube's equation such that ƒ(t) = (T(z)x(t), T(z)y(t), T(z)z(t)), for some real constants a and b.

## See also

* 3D projection

## References

1. ↑ Shirley, Peter; Ashikhmin, Michael; Marschner, Steve (2009). Fundamentals of Computer Graphics (3rd ed.). CRC Press. p. 426. ISBN 9781568814698.
2. ↑ Barr, Alan H. (July 1984). "Global and local deformations of solid primitives". Computer Graphics 18 (3): 21–30. doi:10.1145/964965.808573. https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~david/Classes/CS586/Papers/p21-barr.pdf. Retrieved 4 May 2015.

## External links

* [1], Computer Graphics Notes. University of Toronto. (See: Tapering).
* [2], 3D Transformations. Brown University. (See: Nonlinear deformations).
* [3], ScienceWorld article on Tapering in Image Synthesis.

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