CS 294-3
"RAPID PROTOTYPING"
Project Ideas, Fall 1998
One of the goals of this course is to make some parts with SFF or with injection molding.
The parts may serve as visualizations of interesting geometry,
or as prototypes for toys or puzzles.
Below I am pointing to some references that display some parts that I would like to have.
Geometrical Prototypes
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- Build a model of the Projective Plane in the form
of the 3-fold symmetrical Boy's Surface.
Make the surface thick and "transparent" so that the model can be built with SFF.
A Computer Rendering
A non-parametrically symmetrical surface description
Skeleton of Boy's surface
A simple paper model
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- Typically, all these surfaces should be built with a "thick" but perforated
sheet of material to give some transparency into the inner parts of the object
as in this
Skeleton of a Klein Bottle
More Surfaces
More Surfaces
Steiner Surfaces
Modular Parts
Make the injection mold for the two rhombic bricks
that allow aperiodic tiling of 3-space in analogy to the aperiodic tiling
of two-space with Penrose tiles.
This would be a special kind of "lego" brick similar to what we did in
assignment 6.
However, the tile should be somewhat transparent so that one can look
inside the
zonohedra construction.
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