| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S01702/01 |
| Title: |
Investigation of Intelligent Techniques for Interpreting Freeform Surfaces from On-line Sketching (ITIFS) |
| Principal Investigator: |
Wright, Professor D |
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| Department: |
Design and Systems Engineering |
| Organisation: |
Brunel University London |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 April 2003 |
Ends: |
30 September 2006 |
Value (£): |
190,668
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Design & Testing Technology |
Design Engineering |
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Creative Industries |
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Shape design plays an important role in the commercial competitiveness of products. Currently, there exists little computational support for an early stag( shape design, e.g. conceptual design. The proposed research will focus on free-form surface interpretation from on-line sketching. During sketching, designers often use different representing skills to create 3D illusions. For example, designers usually sketch profile lines of objects to indicate rough sha (or overall shapes) of objects, and then draw contour curves and a variety of shadings: crosshatching, directed lines, and repeated lines to detail or modify rough shapes into more accurate shapes. From a construction point of view, a surface-based object is composed of some basic surface forms (e.g., general cylindrical, spherical, and conical objects, and multiple-side surface patches) and their blending surfaces. On the basis of our previous work, the propose research will continue investigating intelligent interpretation techniques for rapid and approximate surface modelling, by studying fuzzy logic and neural ne based computational techniques applied to into on-line sketching. The research collaborators: Nokia and Xerox companies will provide access to their cu practice in surface-based conceptual design of their products. The research will target their conceptual design activities in order to make the researched system applicable. In general the system could help users to rapidly and easily create, edit and evolve 3D surface design models.
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http://www.brunel.ac.uk |