Researchers at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne managed to develop a new and unique way to create a volume of 3D-objects such inextensible but flexible materials such as metal, leather and plastics - the potential of the method can be widely disclosed in a variety of scientific fields, such as in bioengineering and mikroinzhiniringe but beyond that also in architecture and fashion. Together with colleagues from the University of Carnegie Mellon, experts from Lausanne have managed to develop a method that consists in cutting the holes of a certain size on the surface of the material to further it can be a bit of stretch, and with the help of computer simulations to create a full 3D-model.
The method consists in the fact that previously, with the help of computer simulations of the material, experts calculate where and what size to cut holes in the material itself, conceived to get the 3D-object. Then, using the right shape, the experts how to "pull" the material on it. Despite the fact that the process seems simple at first glance, the algorithm has a huge amount of detail, which helps to manage only computer simulation.
Project Manager, Mina Kanakovich, states that the developed algorithm can perfectly express themselves in various fields of human activity - from microelectronics to create an entirely new architectural details. Now, researchers will focus on the study of what can be obtained in any way changing themselves cutouts on the material, rather than to change shape under it.
While aspects of the secrets and techniques remain secret, but developers experts will present their creation at the SIGGRAPH special scientific conference, dedicated to the latest technologies in the field of computer graphics and interactive mechanics.