General:

The course will focus on the computational aspects of fabrication-aware design. The course is an advanced one, offered to graduate and finishing undergraduate students. The course requires a thorough understanding of general applicative computer-science subjects. A recommended prerequisite is  "Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, Vision and Image Processing", which will definitely prove advantageous to those who have taken it. The course will include a lecture part (of about half the time), seminar-style paper presentations, and will conclude with a project.

Agenda:

The course will touch the topics required for developing algorithms which ease the process of modeling (or designing) 3D objects that are to be fabricated (via 3D printing in most cases), focusing mostly on geometric optimization.

The course will start with a general introduction to printing technologies, physically-based simulation methods and geometric representation and optimization tools. Afterwards, through recent papers, we will demonstrate how these techniques can be leveraged to lighten the load of the aforementioned processes, automize them, or enable object properties which were not possible before.

These demonstrations will discuss object motion and deformation control, strength control and improvement, and design for appearance. Additionally, some of the examples will demonstrate how these methods can be employed to improve even the time and quality of the printing process itself.

The learned subjects can and will be adjusted according to student interest during the semester, but will more or less follow the topics discussed in "Design, Representations, and Processing for Additive Manufacturing"