Detection of planar regions in volume data for topology optimization

  • Authors:
  • Ulrich Bauer;Konrad Polthier

  • Affiliations:
  • FU Berlin, Berlin, Germany;FU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • GMP'08 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Advances in geometric modeling and processing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We propose a method to identify planar regions in volume data using a specialized version of the discrete Radon transform operating on a structured or unstructured grid. The algorithm uses an efficient discretization scheme for the parameter space to obtain a running time of O(N(T log T)), where T is the number of cells and N is the number of plane normals in the discretized parameter space. We apply our algorithm in an industrial setting and perform experiments with real-world data generated by topology optimization algorithms, where the planar regions represent portions of a mechanical part that can be built using steel plate.