Freeform Shading and Lighting Systems from Planar Quads
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The topic of this paper is optimized shading and lighting systems which consist of planar fins arranged along the edges of a quad-dominant base mesh, that mesh itself covering a reference surface. Such an arrangement can be observed e.g. in the Kogod courtyard roof designed by Foster + Partners for the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC (Fig. 1): A reference surface consisting of three vaults with curved valleys in between is panelized by a quad mesh whose faces are not planar; planar glass panels are mounted on a grid of quadrilateral fins which follow the edges of the quad mesh. In our paper we consider structures of exactly that type, whose geometry is hierarchically set up as follows:
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