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SUMMARY:Computational Design Tools for Fabrication-aware Modeling - Dr Nil
 oy Mitra - University College London
DTSTART:20131206T150000Z
DTEND:20131206T160000Z
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CONTACT:Lorna Everett
DESCRIPTION:Creating non-trivial geometric forms is difficult. The problem
  is further complicated when the target form is to be physically fabricate
 d. In absence of appropriate tools\, designers often spend long hours acco
 unting for a variety of physical and functional constraints\, which are of
 ten complex and difficult to manually account for. Our research focuses on
  developing algorithms that characterise\, parameterize and expose 'valid'
  shape spaces implicitly defined by such constraints. In this talk\, I wil
 l discuss our latest attempts to analyze large model collection to discove
 r such shape spaces and use them to develop intuitive computational tools 
 to facilitate creation of semantically meaningful yet easy-to-fabricate sh
 apes (e.g.\, developable shapes\, RF structures\, etc.). \n
LOCATION:Cambridge University Engineering Department\, LR5
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