The synthesis of solids bounded by many faces
Communications of the ACM
Solid Freeform Fabrication: A New Direction in Manufacturing
Solid Freeform Fabrication: A New Direction in Manufacturing
Voxel-Based Modeling for Layered Manufacturing
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Constructive hypervolume modeling
Graphical Models - Volume modeling
The Myth of the Paperless Office
The Myth of the Paperless Office
Heterogeneous material modeling with distance fields
Computer Aided Geometric Design
Heterogeneous object modeling: A review
Computer-Aided Design
Fabricating spatially-varying subsurface scattering
ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 papers
EvoFab: a fully embodied evolutionary fabricator
ICES'10 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Evolvable systems: from biology to hardware
Procedural function-based modelling of volumetric microstructures
Graphical Models
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Advances in digital design and fabrication technologies are leading toward single fabrication systems capable of producing almost any complete functional object. We are proposing a new paradigm for manufacturing, which we call Universal Desktop Fabrication (UDF), and a framework for its development. UDF will be a coherent system of volumetric digital design software able to handle infinite complexity at any spatial resolution and compact, automated, multi-material digital fabrication hardware. This system aims to be inexpensive, simple, safe and intuitive to operate, open to user modification and experimentation, and capable of rapidly manufacturing almost any arbitrary, complete, high-quality, functional object. Through the broad accessibility and generality of digital technology, UDF will enable vastly more individuals to become innovators of technology, and will catalyze a shift from specialized mass production and global transportation of products to personal customization and point-of-use manufacturing. Likewise, the inherent accuracy and speed of digital computation will allow processes that significantly surpass the practical complexity of the current design and manufacturing systems. This transformation of manufacturing will allow for entirely new classes of human-made, peerproduced, micro-engineered objects, resulting in more dynamic and natural interactions with the world. We describe and illustrate our current results in UDF hardware and software, and describe future development directions.