Heterogeneous Object Design with Material Feature Blending

Feature-based design for heterogeneous objects

Heterogeneous objects are objects composed of different constituent materials. In these objects, multiple desirable properties from different constituent materials can be synthesized into one part. In order to obtain mass applications of such heterogeneous objects, efficient and effective design methodologies for heterogeneous objects are crucial. In this paper, we present a feature based desig...

Evolutionary Feature Design for Object Recognition with Hierarchical Networks

A major problem in designing neural vision models is the large dimensionality of the search space for defining the needed networks. By using hierarchical vision models inspired by biology we narrow the space of possible architectures. We perform evolutionary optimization of remaining critical network parts e.g. the combination features, which are up to now mostly subject to manually determinati...

Fuzzy Controller for Cement Raw Material Blending

Object-Space Blending and Splatting of Points

In this paper we present a novel point-based rendering approach based on object-space point interpolation of densely sampled surfaces. We introduce the concept of a transformation-invariant covariance matrix of a set of points which can efficiently be used to determine splat sizes in a multiresolution point hierarchy. We also analyze continuous point interpolation in object-space, and we define...

Blending and Your Bank Account: Conceptual Blending in ATM Design

In this paper I explore Fauconnier and Turner's (1998) conceptual blending as an evaluative technique for user interface design. Conceptual blending theory offers a rich model that may account for meaning construction and meaning elaboration in design. Blending has been used previously to analyze jokes (Coulson, 1995), metaphor (Fauconnier & Turner, 1998), and Hebrew verb morphology (Mandelblit...