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dc.contributor.authorDeng, B.en_US
dc.contributor.authorPottmann, Helmuten_US
dc.contributor.authorWallner, Johannesen_US
dc.contributor.editorMario Botsch and Scott Schaeferen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-27T15:03:03Z
dc.date.available2015-02-27T15:03:03Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2011.02011.xen_US
dc.description.abstractRationalization and construction-aware design dominate the issue of realizability of freeform architecture. The former means the decomposition of an intended shape into parts which are sufficiently simple and efficient to manufacture; the latter refers to a design procedure which already incorporates rationalization. Recent contributions to this topic have been concerned mostly with small-scale parts, for instance with planar faces of meshes. The present paper deals with another important aspect, namely long-range parts and supporting structures. It turns out that from the pure geometry viewpoint this means studying families of curves which cover surfaces in certain well-defined ways. Depending on the application one has in mind, different combinatorial arrangements of curves are required. We here restrict ourselves to so-called hexagonal webs which correspond to a triangular or tri-hex decomposition of a surface. The individual curve may have certain special properties, like being planar, being a geodesic, or being part of a circle. Each of these properties is motivated by manufacturability considerations and imposes constraints on the shape of the surface. We investigate the available degrees of freedom, show numerical methods of optimization, and demonstrate the effectivity of our approach and the variability of construction solutions derived from webs by means of actual architectural designs.en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectComputer Graphics [I.3.5]en_US
dc.subjectComputational Geometry and Object Modelingen_US
dc.titleFunctional Webs for Freeform Architectureen_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US


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