ProtoSphere: a GPU-assisted prototype guided sphere packing algorithm for arbitrary objects

  • Authors:
  • Rene Weller;Gabriel Zachmann

  • Affiliations:
  • Clausthal University, Germany;Clausthal University, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2010 Sketches
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Filling objects densely with sets of non overlapping spheres has been investigated for centuries. Once started as a pure intellectual challenge, today, sphere packings have diverse applications in a wide spectrum of scientific and engineering disciplines, for example in automated radiosurgical treatment planning, investigation of processes such as sedimentation, compaction and sintering, in powder metallurgy for three-dimensional laser cutting, in cutting different natural crystals, the discrete element method is based on them, and so forth.