Morphological shape generation through user-controlled group metamorphosis

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• 作者：Mathieu Sanchez ; Oleg Fryazinov ; Turlif Vilbr ; t ; Alex ; er Pasko
• 关键词：Morphological shape design ; Group metamorphosis ; User-controlled metamorphosis ; Signed distance fields
• 刊名：Computers and Graphics
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：October, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：37
• 期：6
• 页码：620-627
• 全文大小：5227 K

文摘

Morphological shape design is interpreted in this paper as a search for new shapes from a particular application domain represented by a set of selected shape instances. This paper proposes a new foundation for morphological shape design and generation. In contrast to existing generative procedures, an approach based on a user-controlled metamorphosis between functionally based shape models is presented. A formulation of the pairwise metamorphosis is proposed with a variety of functions described for the stages of deformation, morphing and offsetting. This formulation is then extended to the metamorphosis between groups of shapes with user-defined, dynamically correlated and weighted feature elements. A practical system was implemented in the form of plugin to Maya and tested by an industrial designer on a group of representative shapes from a particular domain.