Creating polytope representations of design spaces for visual exploration using consistency techniques

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 132, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 0810111-08101110

  Devanathan, Srikanth ^a   Ramani, Karthik ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

CONSISTENCY TECHNIQUES; DESIGN CONCEPT; DESIGN SPACES; DESIGN VARIABLES; DESIGN-PROCESS; GEOMETRY PROBLEMS; PARAMETRIC DESIGN PROBLEMS; POLYTOPES; REPRESENTATION OF DESIGNS; VISUAL EXPLORATION;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 77956391369     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4001528     Document Type: Article

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