NDLI: Design of solids with free-form surfaces

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Author	Kimura, Fumihiko Chiyokura, Hiroaki
Abstract	We propose a unified method of generating a wide range of three dimensional objects from polyhedra to solids with free-form surfaces. Modeling systems for polyhedra and systems for free-form surfaces have been developed independently in the past because of the difference in their underlying theory and practices. However, this is not desirable for a designer. So in this paper, we have shown a method in which a wide range of shapes are generated in one system by using local modifications. Local modifications are procedures used to change the shape of solids locally. The construction and the modification of three dimensional shapes by these procedures are natural and easy for a designer in many cases. The implementation of these procedures in a computer is easy and their execution does not require much time. Our method to construct a solid with free-form surfaces consists of following three phases. 1) A solid which serves as a basis of free-form shape design is generated by local modifications. Edges of this solid are straight lines but its faces are not necessarily flat planes. 2) From this model, a curve model which adequately represents the characteristics of a free-form shape is generated. 3) Surface equations interpolating over the curve model are generated. We have made a geometric modeling system MODIF. Using this system, a complicated solid with free-form surfaces can be designed easily. MODIF can generate color shaded pictures and cutter path data for making a real object model by NC machining tool.
Starting Page	289
Ending Page	298
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00978930
DOI	10.1145/964967.801160
Journal	ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics (COMG)
Volume Number	17
Issue Number	3
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1988-08-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Science Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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