Form-finding with polyhedral meshes made simple

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Tang, Chengcheng ^a   Sun, Xiang ^a   Gomes, Alexandra ^a   Wallner, Johannes ^b   Pottmann, Helmut ^c  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Architectural geometry; Constraint space; Discrete differential geometry; Form finding; Guided projection; Polyhedral surfaces; Self supporting surfaces; Static equilibrium

Indexed keywords

PRODUCT DESIGN; GEOMETRY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ARCHITECTURAL GEOMETRY; CONSTRAINT SPACES; DISCRETE DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY; FORM-FINDING; GUIDED PROJECTION; POLYHEDRAL SURFACE; STATIC EQUILIBRIUM; POLYHEDRAL MESHES; SELF-SUPPORTING SURFACE; SUPPORTING SURFACES;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84905718794     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: 15577333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2601097.2601213     Document Type: Conference Paper

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