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Abstract

A mesh MediaObjects/10444_2009_9119_Figa_HTML.gif with planar faces is called an edge offset (EO) mesh if there exists a combinatorially equivalent mesh MediaObjects/10444_2009_9119_Figb_HTML.gif such that corresponding edges of MediaObjects/10444_2009_9119_Figa_HTML.gif and MediaObjects/10444_2009_9119_Figb_HTML.gif lie on parallel lines of constant distance d. The edges emanating from a vertex of MediaObjects/10444_2009_9119_Figa_HTML.gif lie on a right circular cone. Viewing MediaObjects/10444_2009_9119_Figa_HTML.gif as set of these vertex cones, we show that the image of MediaObjects/10444_2009_9119_Figa_HTML.gif under any Laguerre transformation is again an EO mesh. As a generalization of this result, it is proved that the cyclographic mapping transforms any EO mesh in a hyperplane of Minkowksi 4-space into a pair of Euclidean EO meshes. This result leads to a derivation of EO meshes which are discrete versions of Laguerre minimal surfaces. Laguerre minimal EO meshes can also be constructed directly from certain pairs of Koebe meshes with help of a discrete Laguerre geometric counterpart of the classical Christoffel duality.

Keywords  Discrete differential geometry - Laguerre geometry - Edge offset mesh - Koebe polyhedron - Minimal surface - Laguerre minimal surface

Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000)  68U05 - 53A40 - 52C99 - 51B15


Communicated by Rida Farouki.

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