cylindre généralisé

Traductions

• anglais

  Auteur : Office québécois de la langue française, 1997

  Définition

  A volumetric and object-centred representation of a solid shape. It is described by the surface swept out by a two dimensional shape (the cross section), moving along a three dimensional curve (the principal axis), according to some sweeping rule.

  Note :

  The sweeping rule defines the orientation of the cross section with respect to the axis and determines how the shape of the cross section changes whilst moving along the axis. Altering the parameters of these three components results in the formation of different volumetric descriptions.

  Termes :

  1. generalized cylinder
  2. generalised cylinder
  3. generalized cone
  4. generalised cone