Once again I am in over my head so please bear with me.
I have a B-spline (imported from Solidworks) that I can analyze with geomdl in python.
From geomdl I can extract the first and second derivatives as well as the tangent, normal, and binormal vectors for any given point on the spline.
From there I can calculate the curvature at that point from the first and second derivatives.
However I am not able to determine which way the curve is turning.
I would like to find the point that is at the center of curvature of current point of interest on the bspline.
I 'think' that the tangent vector and the normal vector both lie on the osculating plane of interest. The cross product would then give me the normal to the osculating plane. However I can not make this work.
At a minimum I need to know which way the curve is bending. i.e. CW or CCW.
But if I have the point at the center of curvature I would know pretty much everything about that point.
Is this correct?
To restate the question:
Given a point, the derivatives of the curve at that point, and and the Tangent, Normal, and BiNormal vectors, how do I find the center of curvature?
Given a parametric curve C(t) and the first and 2nd derivatives C'(t) and C"(t), the curvature vector can be found
K(t) = m1*C"(t) - m2*C'(t)
where
m1 = 1.0/||C'(t)||^2 and m2 = m1*m1 * C'(t) \dot C"(t).
From K(t), you can find the radius of curvature R(t) as
R(t) = K(t)/||K(t)||^2
and then the center of curvature is C(t)+R(t).