Some Ideas for Your CS285 Course Project . . .

The more of the official course topics:
"Procedural Design" -- "Solid Modeling" -- "Rapid Prototyping"
a project can cover, the better!

• "A_MAZE_ing Shapes" -- Put a maze on the Stanford Bunny.
  Make a simple maze generator for a square region. Suitably place and connect such maze-squares on a quadrilateral mesh of the Stanford bunny model (or some other fancy non-polyhedral shape). Kaplan's Tiled Bunny
  


• 3D Escher Tiling
  Create a fancy 3D shape that tiles 3D space. It may be of a genus larger than zero!
  Demonstrate stackability with a few solid tiles fabricated on the FDM machine. My 2008 Bridges paper
  


• Bas Reliefs
  Creating an interesting bas-relief with FDM, using a method similar to: Weyrich et al.: “Digital Bas-Relief from 3D Scenes”
  
  
• Sophisticated Gear Clusters
  Create some planetary gear like this one or some fancy polyhedral gear like this or like this ...
  
  
• Non-circular 2.5D Gears
  Fabricate some unusual, non-circular gear combinations -- inspired by:  http://www.mekanizmalar.com/
  


• Jitterbug Linkages and Hoberman Spheres
  Design, analyze, and model as a kinematic (SLIDE?) file a cluster of mechanical linkages that transforms in intriguing ways.


• Generator for Urban Models
  Write a program module that generates houses, city blocks, or larger urban structures.


• Some Shape Generator
  Design a program for the production of stylized flowers, weird creatures, or some artistic geometric shapes.
  


• Unusual Bells
  Design an intriguing bell shape with a few parameters to change this shape
  -- and possibly simulate its FEM model for sound analysis.


• Symmetry Finder
  Try to find the inherent (approximate) symmetries in the shape of a scanned in object or some other (irregular) mesh ... (perhaps by eigen-analysis?).


• Construction Kit Prototype
  Design a system of tiles that can snap together into 3-dimensional, non-2-manifold cellular structures.


• A Better(?) Lego Block
  Design novel "lego" bricks with interesting assembly possibilities;
  -- for instance, based on the decomposition of space into rhombic dodecahedra (closes sphere packing);
  -- or inspired by the two rhombic Zonohedra bricks that allow aperiodic (Penrose) tiling of 3-space.
  
  
  

• 2007: 
• Mark Howison: "7-around Surface" 
• James Andrews & Ming-Hay Luk: "FiberMesh++"
  
• Mike Hamada: "ChurchBuilder++"  
• Bryan Klingner: "SpaceKnit"  
• Adam Megacz: "qFat" 
  

• 2006 Project Icons: 
  
  
• 2002:
• Sean Kim: "4D to 3D Projections in Tcl/SLIDE"
• Bryan Liu: "Wankel Engine model (FDM)"
• Jeff Schoner: "Non-circular Gears (FDM)"
• Ali Lakhia: "From Point Cloud to 3D Printing"
• Larry Miller: "Klein-Surface Decomposition"
• Young Shon: "Escher Tiling on the Torus"
• Kiha Lee: "Injection Mold for Triacontrahedral Tile"
  
  
• 2000 Project Titles:
  

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