The simple geometry behind any road
Posted by azhenley 2 days ago
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Comment by jstanley 2 hours ago
A clothoid is used to connect two lines the same way your fillet is, except instead of just 1 radius it has a radius configured for each end and smoothly changes in between.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_spiral
They are also used in railways, because on a railway you don't have the freedom of moving the car's position across the road, so a transition from a straight track to a constant radius would imply an instantaneous step change in centrifugal force, or infinite jerk. Using a clothoid to smooth the change between the straight track and the constant-radius turn means the lateral acceleration increases smoothly instead of instantaneously.
Comment by trelbutate 1 hour ago
Although re-reading that it seems they just don't want to deal with the math involved
Comment by amelius 51 minutes ago
https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mccrae/projects/clothoid/sbim20...
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