I have a .txt file that contains the location of points of a path that is wound on a pressure vessel and the normal at those points.
I want to find the equation of the curve that is being traced from the path points. I am stuck as to what approach i can use to find the equation of the curve.
Once I have the equation of the curve i have to discretize it to small parts and find the radius of the curve. I have another program that has a function which gives me an output based on the radius of the curve.
what would be ideal is I find the curve on a perpendicular plane to the surface at the two close points and find the equation of curve between those points. And I do it for all the successive points. will this approach work? I yes what would required to do that?
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