Spoon Design Using Partial Differential Equations.

Spoon is a form of free-form surfaces. In this paper, a method for designing a spoon using partial differential equations (PDE) is discussed. Boundary curves are defined in term of Fourier series. By selecting the appropriate boundary curves, a design of spoon is generated using fourth order elliptic PDE. Then by solving the elliptic PDE, a smooth design of spoon can be generated. In addition, this paper also examined the impact of the choice of number of boundary curves in generating different spoon shapes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]