DocumentCode
3197364
Title
A cellular design system for soft and varied sized objects
Author
Matsumoto, Kazuteru ; Kunii, Tosiyasu L.
Author_Institution
Kanazawa Inst. of Technol., My-Brand, Inc., Tokyo, Japan
fYear
2002
fDate
2002
Firstpage
386
Lastpage
393
Abstract
After we sketch the design of a product on the Web, we can obtain each part of the product applying a cell decomposition to the sketched design based on the cellular model operations and then applying the homotopy theory to it. When we perform cell decomposition, we can specify the manufacturing procedures of a product as homotopy invariants based on the homotopy theory. Using the parts and the manufacturing procedures of a product, and cell attaching functions accumulated in the cellular design database while these procedures are applied. We show first that we can perform the real design of soft objects, the shapes of which are constantly changing. We then show that the cellular model also can uniformly specify varied sizes. Thus, the cellular model is far more powerful than existing geometric models. The design of bags is taken as an example of soft object and varied sized object design.
Keywords
Internet; database management systems; operating systems (computers); cell attaching functions; cell decomposition; cellular design database; cellular design system; geometric models; homotopy invariants; homotopy theory; manufacturing procedures; varied sized objects; Chaos; Cities and towns; Finance; Humans; Linux; Local activities; Manufacturing; Product design; Solid modeling; Spatial databases;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Cyber Worlds, 2002. Proceedings. First International Symposium on
Print_ISBN
0-7695-1862-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CW.2002.1180905
Filename
1180905
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