MultiFab: A machine vision assisted platform for multi-material 3D printing

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Sitthi Amorn, Pitchaya ^a,b   Ramos, Javier E ^a   Wang, Yuwang ^a,c   Kwan, Joyce ^a   Lan, Justin ^a   Wang, Wenshou ^a   Matusik, Wojciech ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

3D printing; Additive manufacturing; Machine vision; Multi material fabrication

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTERS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

3-D PRINTING; CLOSED FEEDBACK LOOP; INTEGRATED MACHINES; MULTI MATERIALS; OFF-THE-SHELF COMPONENTS; PIEZOELECTRIC INK JETS; SELF CALIBRATION; SYSTEM'S PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 84947293244     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2766962     Document Type: Conference Paper

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