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Abstract | ||
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In sculptured surface machining, many machining operations require cutting areas to be expressed in terms of a boundary representation. To extract cutting areas from a sculptured surface, this paper employs a regular grid model (Z-map model) and presents a procedure extracting areas from a Z-map model. The extracted areas may correspond to various machining features, depending on what the Z-map stores, such as curvature (fillet, uncut area), slope (wall, floor) and Z-values (contour). The core of the procedure is a ‘boundary extraction algorithm’ extracting boundaries and identifying the inclusion relationships among the boundaries from a binary image. The time complexity of the boundary extraction algorithm is O(n), where n is the number of runs. In terms of its time complexity and simplicity, the proposed algorithm has advantages over the prior ones. Empirical tests show the performance of the proposed algorithm. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2001 | 10.1016/S0010-4485(00)00101-9 | Computer-Aided Design |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Cutting area,Boundary extraction,Inclusion relationship,Boundary tracing | Boundary representation,Mathematical optimization,Curvature,Regular grid,Edge detection,Computer Aided Design,Binary image,Algorithm,Machining,Geometry,Time complexity,Mathematics | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
33 | 8 | 0010-4485 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
9 | 0.74 | 6 |
Authors | ||
2 | ||