Motion Polynomials and Planar Linkages -- from Wolfram Library Archive

Title

Motion Polynomials and Planar Linkages

Author

Christoph Koutschan

Journal / Anthology

ACM Communications in Computer Algebra

Year:

2016

Volume:

Issue:

Description

We present the Mathematica package PlanarLinkages, which provides commands for constructing and visualizing planar linkages that draw a prescribed algebraic curve of genus 0, or more generally, that follow a prescribed rational motion. Since the implemented algorithms are heavily based on the concept of motion polynomials, the functionality of the package also includes basic arithmetic of motion polynomials and a factorization procedure.

Subject

Mathematics > Algebra

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