Cones and Cylinders

Below are cones of various heights and radii.
Input for cone.c requires: r1 (bottom radius1), r2(top radius2), height, n(number of vertices).
All times were measured on on an SGI R50000 (200 MHZ) with 128MB RAM.

All images Copyright (C) 2000 Biliana Kaneva and Joseph O'Rourke and Veronica Morales


The input for this cone was: r1 = 0, r2 = 40, height = 120, nP = 100.

Statistics: n = 99; F = 194; time = 8 sec; memory = 4.34 Mb

The input for this cone was: r1 = 40, r2 = 40, height = 20, nP = 100.

Statistics: n = 196; F = 388; time = 8 sec; memory = 4.71 Mb

The input for this cone was: r1 = 40, r2 = 40, height = 160, nP = 100.

Statistics: n = 196; F = 388; time = 28 sec; memory = 10.09 Mb

The input for this cone was: r1 = 30, r2 = 60, height = 120, nP = 100.

Statistics: n = 196; F = 388; time = 12 sec; memory = 6.22 Mb


Research supported by NSF grant CCR-9731804.
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