An Interactive Computational Design Tool for Large Reciprocal Frame Structures

Peng Song; Chi Wing Fu; Prashant Goswami; Jianmin Zheng; Niloy J. Mitra; Daniel Cohen-Or

doi:10.1007/s00004-014-0173-0

An Interactive Computational Design Tool for Large Reciprocal Frame Structures

Peng Song, Chi Wing Fu^*, Prashant Goswami, Jianmin Zheng, Niloy J. Mitra, Daniel Cohen-Or

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Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

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This paper presents the detail of our interactive tool for designing reciprocal frame (RF) structures. In general, our tool addresses the RF design problem with three major steps: (1) it supports the design of RF-tessellation by connecting RF patterns and plane tiling; (2) it delivers interactive preview and exploration of RF designs in 3D space through conformal mapping; and (3) it performs a novel optimization method to arrange the rods in the RF-structures, so that we can ensure rod collinear contacts in the structures. This paper supplements our previous work with implementation details, user interface design and operations, as well as a preliminary study and various new results we devised from the tool.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	109-118
Number of pages	10
Journal	Nexus Network Journal
Volume	16
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-014-0173-0
State	Published - Apr 2014

Keywords

Algorithms
Automation
Computer technology
Geometric analysis
RF-structures
RF-units
Reciprocal structures
Tessellations
Tilings

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Architecture
General Mathematics
Visual Arts and Performing Arts

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