Presentation
Volume decomposition for two-piece rigid casting
Event Type
Technical Papers
TimeFriday, December 179:33am - 9:44am JST
LocationHall B5 (1) (5F, B Block) & Virtual Platform
DescriptionWe introduce a novel technique to automatically decompose an input object's volume into a set of parts that can be represented by two opposite height fields. Such decomposition enables the manufacturing of individual parts using two-piece reusable rigid molds. Our decomposition strategy relies on a new energy formulation that utilizes a pre-computed signal on the mesh volume representing the accessibility for a predefined set of extraction directions. Thanks to this novel formulation, our method allows to efficiently optimize for a fabrication-aware partitioning of volumes in a completely automatic way. We demonstrate the efficacy of our approach by generating valid volume partitionings for a wide range of complex objects and physically reproducing several of them.
