Branching blend of natural quadrics based on surfaces with rational offsets Original Research Article

A new branching blend between two natural quadrics (circular cylinders/cones or spheres) in many positions is proposed. The blend is a ring shaped patch of a PN surface (surface with rational offset) parametrized by rational bivariant functions of degree image. The general theory of PN surfaces is developed using Laguerre geometry and a universal rational parametrization of the Blaschke cylinder. The construction is extended via inversion to a PN branching blend of degree image between Dupin cyclide and a natural quadric.