The ridges of a given surface fall into two families, typically designated red and blue, depending on which of the two principal curvatures has an extremum.
At umbilical points the colour of a ridge will change from red to blue. There are two main cases: one has three ridge lines passing through the umbilic, and the other has one line passing through it.
ridge, differential, geometry, this, article, about, ridge, curves, smooth, surfaces, polytope, elements, ridge, geometry, differential, geometry, smooth, surface, three, dimensions, ridge, point, when, line, curvature, local, maximum, minimum, principal, curv. This article is about ridge curves on smooth surfaces in 3D For polytope elements see Ridge geometry In differential geometry a smooth surface in three dimensions has a ridge point when a line of curvature has a local maximum or minimum of principal curvature The set of ridge points form curves on the surface called ridges A ridge The ridges of a given surface fall into two families typically designated red and blue depending on which of the two principal curvatures has an extremum At umbilical points the colour of a ridge will change from red to blue There are two main cases one has three ridge lines passing through the umbilic and the other has one line passing through it Ridge lines correspond to cuspidal edges on the focal surface See also editRidge detectionReferences editPorteous Ian R 2001 Ridges and Ribs Geometric Differentiation Cambridge University Press pp 182 197 ISBN 0 521 00264 8 nbsp This differential geometry related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ridge differential geometry amp oldid 1000202489, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
