Has anyone been tracking academic theses and dissertations?
One notable work is:
“Hierarchical Volumetric Object Representations for Digital Fabrication Workflows”
by Matthew Keeter
which was a documentation of his projects such as:
https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/antimony/3/
which grew into:
I used to follow cutting edge techonology papers for a while but as I’ve gotten older and killed more of my brain cells with quality adult beverages not as much.
I looked at the paper and first thing that struck me was how dated it felt. Then I saw the date of the paper. Its over a decade old. Most modern CAD and 3d modeling software have volumetric re-meshing that mostly fixes manifold issues.
Thank you for sharing. A fun read. Technologies are moving at lightning speed. Blink and you lost the bubble.
I’ve been looking at AI research papers a bit lately focused on height map generation.
On another forum, we had a short discussion on super ellipses and that sent me looking for thesis papers on how it could possibly be implemented without a cnc. I am afraid my math was not up the task. My math degree is just a piece of paper. If you don’t use it, you lose it.
Emmett Lalish wrote a description of his Manifold library which isn’t an academic paper. He suggests a paper may be coming. But it’s quite interesting as it is.
More in his Manifold posts on his blog:
This seemed interesting:
https://kevinlynagh.com/cadtron/
(but not sure how many folks here use a tablet and stylus)