Tenta 071024 Flashcards
GEOMETRY MODELING
Curves used in geometry modeling can be of different order. What are the advantages and
disadvantages of higher order curves?
GEOMETRY MODELING
Advantage:
- Increased precision
Disadvantages:
- risk for corrupt curves
- increased calculation time
GEOMETRY MODELING
What order is usually used in CAD-systems?
GEOMETRY MODELING
3:rd order
GEOMETRY MODELING
What is the advantage of B-spline curves?
GEOMETRY MODELING
- Better local control of the curve
- Order of the polynomial does not increase with the number of control points
- Easier to define joined curve segments
GEOMETRY MODELING
Name two types of curves used in geometry modeling!
GEOMETRY MODELING
- Bézier
- B-spline
GEOMETRY MODELING
Specify, describe and exemplify three different types of solid models
GEOMETRY MODELING
1. Decomposition models
- voxels: a solid is composed of a number of cubes
(while cell based are built up of polygons)
- Constructive models
- solids are by manipulating primitives with Boolean operators
Example: A circular hole in a cube is created by subtracting the cylinder from the cube - Boundary representation
- The solid is defined with points, curves and surfaces plus a definition of what is inside the model.
Example: a solid can be created by rotating a curve
GEOMETRY ASSURANCE
Describe how Variation analysis ( with Monte Carlo simulation) work and what it is used for.
GEOMETRY ASSURANCE
- Calculates a statistical prediction of the variation in critical measures
- Statistical method - random data
- Tolerances on parts ( inputs) are randomly generated within defined distribution
- Distributions for critical measures (outputs) are generated from thousands of iterations
- All kinematical relatyions and sensitivities are captured
GEOMETRY ASSURANCE
Describe how Contribution Analysis work and what it is used for.
GEOMETRY ASSURANCE
- Calculates a ranked list of how all input tolerances contributes to the variation in the critical measures
- All input parameters are varied within their tolerances on 3 levels
- Max output is registered
- contribution is calculated in percent as contribution=100*delta(output)/sum(delta(output))
GEOMETRY ASSURANCE
Describe how stability analysis work and what it is used for!
GEOMETRY ASSURANCE
- . Can be used to analyze the influence of each part locating scheme on
- -> variation amplification, color-coding
- -> position stability of parts
- -> critical product dimensions (measures)
- It is done by disturbing each locating point with a unit disturbance
- And summarizing their contribution with Rss
GEOMETRY ASSURANCE
Name three different types of analyses used in CAT (Computer Aided Tolerancing) software
GEOMETRY ASSURANCE
- Variation analyses
- Contribution analyses
- Stability analyses
COMPUTER GRAPHICS
Name two different methods for 3D computer graphics rendering
COMPUTER GRAPHICS
- Ray-Tracing
- Radiosity
COMPUTER GRAPHICS
Describe how Ray-tracing works!
COMPUTER GRAPHICS
- Follow light rays from he observer, one for each pixel
- Calculate how the ray is mirrored and refracted (if the object is transparent) when it hits surfaces in the model, and save the way in a tree graph
- Calculate the intensity at the initial points with illumination models
- Use the tree to calculate the intensities at each pixel
- Handles automatically shadows, hidden surfaces and clipping
COMPUTER GRAPHICS
Describe how Radiosity works!
- Based on the effect that light sources are emitting light
- Is done by iterating the emission of light
- In the first step only surfaces with direct light are visible
- In the next step these surfaces emits light to other surfaces
- This method is repeated until the result is satisfactory
GEOMETRY ASSURANCE
PROS and CONS with Ray-tracing!
GEOMETRY ASSURANCE
Advantage:
- good at transparent objects
- handles specular reflection well
- good at point light sources
Disadvantage:
- Unnaturally sharp shadows
- Bad at diffuse reflection
- Not good at global light sources
- SLow
GEOMETRY ASSURANCE
PROS and CONS with Radiosity!
GEOMETRY ASSURANCE
Advantage:
- Good at diffuse reflection
- Gives realistic shadows
- Good at global light source
Disadvantage:
- Not good at specular reflection
- Not good for transparent objects
- Not good at point light sources
- slow
Describe how so called shutter glasses can be used to obtain stereo projection on an
ordinary computer screen
- Gives 3D by “blocking” one eye at time
- This is synchronized with the computer which alternates between views for the left and eye respectively
- The view are calculated with perspective projection
- The view for the left eye is calculated by moving the picture half the distance of the eyes to the left
- For the4 right eye the picture is moved the same distance to the right