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Types of surfaces

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Types of surfaces

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- [Instructor] Throughout this chapter we'll consider several types of surface, together with some basic geometric properties that can be helpful for each. When I say we'll panel a surface, I mean to suggest that we'll start with a larger design surface, perhaps part of a building facade and express that surface with a set of smaller surfaces. Think of it like tiling differently shaped walls with perhaps differently shaped tiles. There are a lot of ways to go about doing this and some schemes are more or less appropriate than others. We'll start by looking at flatter surfaces, something like the green one on the left. We'll use that as an excuse to talk about surface parameters and the implications for evenly spaced panel divisions. Then we'll look at surfaces of revolution. There are almost always ways to divide these into plainer panels if they're divided radially and also perpendicularly to the axis of rotation. Some of these types of surfaces are called developable which means…

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