Hierarchical volumetric object representations for digital fabrication workflows

  • Authors:
  • Matthew Keeter

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Center for Bits and Atoms

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Posters
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

With the rise of of desktop 3D printers, hackerspaces, and fab labs, more and more individuals are engaging in personal-scale digital fabrication. For historical reasons, fabrication workflows are often based on triangulated meshes. Meshes are easy to render, but cannot guarantee physical feasibility -- holes, zero-area faces, incorrect normals, and other flaws can make them nonsensical descriptions of physical objects.