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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 8.
Published in final edited form as: J Comput Chem. 2009 Jan 15;30(1):132–153. doi: 10.1002/jcc.21027

Figure 6.

Figure 6

The two types of curved elements used to discretize accessible and molecular surfaces. A generalized spherical triangle (GST) (A), is a three-sided region on the surface of a sphere bounded by three circular arcs. These arcs are not necessarily geodesic arcs. Torus patches on molecular surfaces are discretized using toroidal elements (B), which are isomorphic to a rectangle.