Sur une propriété du cône de révolution
We survey the results on surfaces which contain many circles. First, we give two analyses of shapes which always look round. Then we introduce the Blum conjecture: “A closed surface in E³ which contains seven circles through each point is a sphere”, and give some partial affirmative results toward the conjecture. Moreover, we study some surfaces which contain many circles through each point, for example, cyclides.
We investigate pairs of surfaces in Euclidean 3-space with the same Weingarten operator in case that one surface is given as surface of revolution. Our local and global results complement global results on ovaloids of revolution from S-V-W-W.
We study the use of a GPU for the numerical approximation of the curvature dependent flows of graphs - the mean-curvature flow and the Willmore flow. Both problems are often applied in image processing where fast solvers are required. We approximate these problems using the complementary finite volume method combined with the method of lines. We obtain a system of ordinary differential equations which we solve by the Runge-Kutta-Merson solver. It is a robust solver with an automatic choice of the...