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Technical Papers

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ACM DL

Thursday, 3 August, 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 150/151
Session Chair: Stelian Coros, Carnegie Mellon University

Interactive Design-Space Exploration and Optimization for CAD Models

CAD is the world’s preeminent source of parametric data, but harnessing this data is challenging because CAD requires long regeneration times, and resulting meshes have different combinatorics. Using a precomputation-based method and novel interpolation techniques, this work develops tools that allows designers to interactively explore and optimize CAD shapes.

Adriana Schulz
Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jie Xu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bo Zhu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Changxi Zheng
Columbia University

Eitan Grinspun
Columbia University

Wojciech Matusik
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Interactive Design and Stability Analysis of Decorative Joinery for Furniture

Introducing an interactive joinery-design tool. Users draw the visual appearance of joints, and the tool automatically generates assemblable 3D parts that conform to the drawings and validate stability.

JiaXian Yao
University of California, Berkeley

Danny Kaufman
Adobe Research

Yotam Gingold
George Mason University

Maneesh Agrawala
Stanford University

Lightweight Structure Design Under Force-Location Uncertainty

This paper introduces a lightweight structure-optimization algorithm for problems with force-location uncertainty. Given an input 3D model, regions on its boundary where normal forces may make contact, and a total force-magnitude budget, the algorithm generates a lightweight 3D structure that withstands any force configuration capped by the budget.

Erva Ulu
Carnegie Mellon University

James McCann
Disney Research Pittsburgh

Levent Burak Kara
Carnegie Mellon University

Design and Volume Optimization of Space Structures

This study of the design and optimization of statically sound and materially efficient space structures constructed by connected beams proposes a systematic computational framework for space-structure design that incorporates static soundness, approximation of reference surfaces, boundary alignment, and geometric regularity.

Caigui Jiang
Max Planck Institut für Informatik, King Abdullah University Of Science And Technology

Chengcheng Tang
King Abdullah University Of Science And Technology, Stanford University

Hans-Peter Seidel
Max Planck Institut für Informatik

Peter Wonka
King Abdullah University Of Science And Technology