Toolpath generation for layer manufacturing of fractal objects

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 214-221

  Chiu, W K ^a   Yeung, Y C ^a   Yu, K M ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Computational geometry; Computer aided design; Modelling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY; FRACTAL GEOMETRY; LAYER MANUFACTURING (LM);

FRACTALS;

EID: 33746660738     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552540610682723     Document Type: Article

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