Tuesday 30 December 2014

New algorithm a Christmas gift to 3D printing - and the environment

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New algorithm a Christmas gift to 3D printing - and the environment
Burnaby, Canada (SPX) Dec 29, 2014 - Just in time for Christmas, Simon Fraser University computing science professor Richard Zhang reveals how to print a 3D Christmas tree efficiently and with zero material waste, using the world's first algorithm for automatically decomposing a 3D object into what are called pyramidal parts. A pyramidal part has a flat base with the remainder of the shape forming upwards over the base with n ... more


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