Abstract
A parting line for a convex polyhedron, P, is a closed curve on the surface of P. It defines the two pieces of P for which mold-halves must be made. An undercut-free parting line is one which does not create recesses or projections in P and thus allows easy de-molding of P. Computing an undercut-free parting line that is as flat as possible is an important problem in mold design. In this paper, an O(n2)-time algorithm is presented to compute such a line, according to a prescribed flatness criterion, where n is the number of vertices in P.
Original language | English (US) |
---|---|
Title of host publication | Applied Computational Geometry |
Subtitle of host publication | Towards Geometric Engineering - FCRC 1996 Workshop, WACG 1996, Selected Papers |
Editors | Ming C. Lin, Ming C. Lin, Dinesh Manocha |
Publisher | Springer Verlag |
Pages | 109-120 |
Number of pages | 12 |
ISBN (Print) | 354061785X, 9783540617853 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1996 |
Event | 1st ACM Workshop on Applied Computational Geometry, WACG 1996 held as part of 2nd Federated Computing Research Conference, FCRC 1996 - Philadelphia, United States Duration: May 27 1996 → May 28 1996 |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
---|---|
Volume | 1148 |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Other
Other | 1st ACM Workshop on Applied Computational Geometry, WACG 1996 held as part of 2nd Federated Computing Research Conference, FCRC 1996 |
---|---|
Country/Territory | United States |
City | Philadelphia |
Period | 5/27/96 → 5/28/96 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:I Research supported in part by NSF Grant CCR-9200270 and by a University of Minnesota Grant-in-Aid of Research Award. A preliminary version of this paper appears in the Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Applied Computational Geometry, LNCS 1148, Springer-Verlag, 1996, pp. 109–120. ∗Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected] 1E-mail: [email protected] 2Work done while at MPI-Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany, and at the University of Minnesota, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1996.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.