发明名称 COMPUTER PROCESS FOR DETERMINING BEST-FITTING MATERIALS FOR CONSTRUCTING ARCHITECTURAL SURFACES
摘要 A computer process for fitting construction materials to an architectural surface modeled in CAD divides the surface into domains, and defines sample points on each domain surface. Low accuracy then high accuracy iterations match a domain to a surface portion of a regular curved solid. The low accuracy match limits the type and orientation of the curved solid. The high accuracy match derives a central reference for the curved solid by defining vector pairs from among the sample points and calculating multiple resultants as cross products of vector pairs that share a common origin. Reference points are located wherever the distance between any two resultants is minimum, and the central reference, e.g. an axis, is derived from the reference points using regression analysis. The match to the domain may be iteratively improved by adjusting a parameter such as a radius until a desired accuracy is achieved. The result is compared to stored specifications to identify construction materials capable of forming the domain. Parallel processing may be employed to reduce time for solving fitting problems for large architectural projects having multiple surfaces with complex curvatures.
申请公布号 US2015051875(A1) 申请公布日期 2015.02.19
申请号 US201313758944 申请日期 2013.02.04
申请人 GEHRY TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 发明人 WITT Andrew
分类号 G06F17/50 主分类号 G06F17/50
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主权项 1. A process executed on a processor circuit for fitting construction materials to an architectural surface representation stored in a computer-aided design (CAD) file residing at a memory circuit, the process comprising: dividing the surface representation into a plurality of domains; for each domain in the plurality of domains: (i) defining multiple sample points that lie on a surface of the domain;(ii) matching a surface of a regular curved solid to the multiple sample points;(iii) defining the domain as a surface portion of the regular curved solid in terms of a central reference and boundary conditions; and(iv) comparing the terms of the defined domain to specifications for construction materials to identify which construction materials can form the domain; and identifying at least one construction material that can form every domain in the plurality of domains.
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