Interactive Modeling of Cellular Structures on Surfaces with Application to Additive Manufacturing
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Date
2020
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The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Abstract
The rich and evocative patterns of natural tessellations endow them with an unmistakable artistic appeal and structural properties which are echoed across design, production, and manufacturing. Unfortunately, interactive control of such patterns-as modeled by Voronoi diagrams, is limited to the simple two dimensional case and does not extend well to freeform surfaces. We present an approach for direct modeling and editing of such cellular structures on surface meshes. The overall modeling experience is driven by a set of editing primitives which are efficiently implemented on graphics hardware. We feature a novel application for 3D printing on modern support-free additive manufacturing platforms. Our method decomposes the input surface into a cellular skeletal structure which hosts a set of overlay shells. In this way, material saving can be channeled to the shells while structural stability is channeled to the skeleton. To accommodate the available printer build volume, the cellular structure can be further split into moderately sized parts. Together with shells, they can be conveniently packed to save on production time. The assembly of the printed parts is streamlined by a part numbering scheme which respects the geometric layout of the input model.
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@article{10.1111:cgf.13929,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{Interactive Modeling of Cellular Structures on Surfaces with Application to Additive Manufacturing}},
author = {Stadlbauer, Pascal and Mlakar, Daniel and Seidel, Hans-Peter and Steinberger, Markus and Zayer, Rhaleb},
year = {2020},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/cgf.13929}
}