Cost-effective printing of 3D objects with skin-frame structures

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Weiming ^a,b   Wang, Tuanfeng Y ^a   Yang, Zhouwang ^a   Liu, Ligang ^a   Tong, Xin ^c   Tong, Weihua ^a   Deng, Jiansong ^a   Chen, Falai ^a   Liu, Xiuping ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

3D printing; Fabrication; Frame structure; Sparsity optimization

Indexed keywords

3-D PRINTING; 3D OBJECT; FRAME STRUCTURE; HOME USERS; MATERIAL COST; MULTI-OBJECTIVE PROGRAMMING PROBLEM; OPTIMIZATION SCHEME; PREEMPTIVE ALGORITHM;

3D PRINTERS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FABRICATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL FRAMES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

PRINTING;

EID: 84887840640     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2508363.2508382     Document Type: Article

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