CS 294-3: RAPID PROTOTYPING

Lecture #10 -- Friday 10/30, 1998.

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Lecture Topics

Review of Problems Showing up in CyberCut

Insuffient overlap between pockets.

Maximum stock size for maze parts ?

Progress Report on your Surface Designs

Making the surfaces thick
- - Thick SFF part by Yan Chen
- - Other renderings by Yan Chen of the Schwarz surface

Making them "transparent"

Minimal data structures for above processing

Level of detail parameter with procedural adjustment

Viewing and Testing Your Designs

Usability of the Viewer ? -- Results

Usability of the Analyzer Tools ? -- Results

New Homework Assignment:
DUE: FRIDAY 11/6/98, 9:45am.

An STL description of a thick, transparent, nicely parameterized version of your surface -- with the bugs fixed, as close as possible ready for SFF fabrication.

Hand in:

a hardcopy of a good view of your surface as produced with an STL viewer;
the output of the analyzer program on your STL file.
a pointer to your (readable) STL file.

Put your name on your hand-ins.
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