Rapid prototyping through octree decomposition of 3D geometric models

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 843-852

  Medellin, H ^a   Corney, J ^a   Davies, J B C ^a   Lim, T ^a   Ritchie, J M ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blox; OcBlox; Octant; Octree representation; Rapid prototyping

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ASSEMBLY; AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DATA STRUCTURES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MACHINING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBOTICS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

BLOX; OCBLOX; OCTANT; OCTREE REPRESENTATION; 3D GEOMETRIC MODEL; 3D MODELS; 3D-MODELING; OCTREE DECOMPOSITION; OCTREES; RAPID-PROTOTYPING;

RAPID PROTOTYPING;

EID: 14044259460     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2004-57769     Document Type: Conference Paper

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