Abstract
Modern architectural projects increasingly use free form curved surfaces. These are eventually fabricated out of a large set of simpler pieces, or tiles that are more economical to manufacture and maintain. The most common tiling scheme is quadmeshing. Typical tiling approaches work in two stages: an initial pattern of lines is generated to yield an initial tiling, followed by an adjustment stage that optimizes the precise geometry of each tile. In this paper, we introduce an approach to address the first stage: draping of aesthetic 2D curves onto 3D surfaces in order to create initial tiling patterns. We test our approach by using a common aesthetic curve, the Archimedean spiral. Several examples from real-world projects are used to illustrate our method. © 2013 CAD Solutions, LLC.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 293-306 |
| Journal | Computer-Aided Design and Applications |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
The authors wish to thank Mr Billy Wong Chi Pan, Technical Director of GT Asia for data, consultation and advise. We also thank architects Ma Yansong, Yosuke Hayano and Qun Dand of MAD studio, Beijing for their kind permission to use the images of the beautiful Qunli Museum. The research in this paper is supported by UGC GRF grant # 614309.
Research Keywords
- draping
- architectural geometry
- quad-meshing
- surface re-meshing