CS 294-3: RAPID PROTOTYPING

Lecture #9 -- Friday 10/23, 1998.

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Lecture Topics

Injection Molded Parts

A brief preview

Example: ZOOB parts

Progress on your Surface Designs

The surface shapes

Using Symmetry - - Example: Schwarz surface
- - Yan's renderings

Making the surfaces thick

Making them transparent

Minimal data structures for above processing

Viewing and Testing Your Designs

Usability of the Viewer

Usability of the Analyzer Tools

Issues with Parametrization

Some intrinsic limitations

Making penetrating surfaces that do not touch

Level of detail parameter with procedural adjustment

New Homework Assignment:
DUE: FRIDAY 10/30/98, 9:45am.

An STL description of a low-resolution, thick, transparent, nicely parameterized version of your surface.

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.

Put your name on your hand-ins.
Next Reading Assignment:
Any information associated with the surface you are designing.
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