Volume decomposition for two-piece rigid casting

ACM Trans. on Graphics, Volume 40, Number 6, page 14 - dec 2021
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We 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 for efficient optimization of 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.



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Paper DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3478513.3480555

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@Article\{AMBCP21,
  author       = "Alderighi, Thomas and Malomo, Luigi and Bickel, Bernd and Cignoni, Paolo and Pietroni, Nico",
  title        = "Volume decomposition for two-piece rigid casting",
  journal      = "ACM Trans. on Graphics",
  number       = "6",
  volume       = "40",
  pages        = "14",
  month        = "dec",
  year         = "2021",
  keywords     = "double height field, volumetric decomposition, casting",
  url          = "http://vcg-legacy.isti.cnr.it/Publications/2021/AMBCP21"
}

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