Importing and reshaping digitized data for use in rapid prototyping: A system for sculpting polygonal mesh surfaces

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-23

  Alciatore, David G ^a   Wohlers, Terry T ^b  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b Wohlers Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA PROCESSING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LASER APPLICATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DATA REDUCTION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEXTURES; UNIX;

COMPUTER AIDED SCULPTING SOFTWARE; LASER DIGITIZING SYSTEMS; STEREOLITHOGRAPHY FILE; THREE DIMENSIONAL POLYGONAL MESH DATA; MESH SURFACES; POLYGONS; WORKSTATIONS;

RAPID PROTOTYPING;

EID: 0029748755     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552549610109045     Document Type: Article

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