Abstract
Shape generation based on scalar fields opened up the space for new fabrication techniques bridging the digital and the physical through material computation. As an example, the development of voxelized methods for shape generation broadened the exploration of multi-material 3d printing and the use of Functionally Gradient Materials (FGM) through the creation of shapes based on their material properties known as Property representations (P-reps) as opposed to Boundary representations (B-reps) [1]. This paper proposes a novel approach for the fabrication of P-reps by generating optimized 3d printing paths by mapping shape internal stress into material distribution through a single optimized curve oriented to the fabrication of procedural shapes. By the use of a modified version of the traveling salesman problem (TSP), an optimized Spline is generated to map trajectories and material distribution into voxelized shape’s slices. As a result, we can obtain an optimized P-Rep G-code generation for multi-material 3d printing and explore the fabrication of P-Rep as FGMs based on material behavior.
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Fusion deposition modeling.
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Michalatos, Panagiotis- Autodesk https://www.food4rhino.com/app/monolith.
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In the experiments, we see that with the exception of the random distribution, the simple TSP performs poorly in length and self intersections number.
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Through Radical component from Digital Space Exploration plugin for Grasshopper http://digitalstructures.mit.edu/page/tools#design-space-exploration-tool-suite-for-grasshopper.
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Through Silvereye optimization plugin for Grasshopper. https://www.food4rhino.com/en/app/silvereye-pso-based-solver.
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Through the use of Octopus for Grasshopper. https://www.food4rhino.com/en/app/octopus.
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I would like to thank Dr. Caitlin Mueller and Yijiang Huang for all the support and great lectures at 4.450 Computational Structural design and Optimization at MIT. Their knowledge and dedication motivated me to propose and develop an atypical project that helped me move forward with important areas of my Ph.D. research. Also, I would like to thank the Design and Computation group at MIT and the school of design of Adolfo Ibañez University for their valuable support.
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Pinochet, D., Tsamis, A. (2022). Path Optimization for Multi-material 3D Printing Using Self-organizing Maps. In: Gerber, D., Pantazis, E., Bogosian, B., Nahmad, A., Miltiadis, C. (eds) Computer-Aided Architectural Design. Design Imperatives: The Future is Now. CAAD Futures 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1465. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1280-1_21
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