This paper reports work exploring the relationship between solid modelling, mesh generating and flow solving in the general context of design optimisation. In particular, the work is interested in the opportunities derived by tightly integrating these traditionally separate activities together within one piece of software. The near term aim is to ask the question: how might a truly virtual, rap...

Diagram editors which are tailored to a specific diagram language typically support either syntax-directed editing or free-hand editing, i.e., the user is either restricted to a collection of predefined editing operations, or he is not restricted at all, but misses the convenience of such complex editing operations. This paper describes DiaGen, a rapid prototyping tool for creating diagram edit...

Many companies collect stated preference data (SP) like intentions and satisfaction as well as revealed preference data (RP) like actual purchasing behavior. It seems relevant to examine the predictive usefulness of this information for future revealed preferences, that is, customer behavior. In this paper we address this issue by considering three case studies.

This paper describes an expressive interface called “The Fingers” currently in development by the author, which derives its underlying interaction design concept from “The Hands”. The Hands was one of the first musical interfaces that was designed in an alternative form, as compared to the typical music industry approach of “copying” or simulating traditional instruments such as keyboards, guit...

An optimal predictive control approach for the suppression of thermo-acoustic instabilities in the combustor chamber is investigated. The approach uses the combustor pressure fluctuations and fuel modulation data for building internal dynamic input-output models and designing the controller. The knowledge of the physical model of the system is not required. This data-based nature of the approac...

We propose a platform for the rapid prototyping of active measurement tools to collect network characteristics. The proposed platform provides its users with basic active measurement primitives upon which sophisticated active measurement tools can be prototyped quickly, practically, and efficiently through scripts in the Lua scripting language. We validate the platform as well as show its flexi...

An new object oriented development suite for data fusion is presented. It is shown how the various issues in the data fusion development like design, implementation, simulation and testing may be supported. This allows the realisation of high sophisticated data fusion systems as applied in numerous civil and defence areas: e.g. air traffic control, coastal surveillance, vehicle guidance systems...

This paper presents a simple three-dimensional (3D) fabrication method based on soft lithography techniques and laminated object manufacturing. The method can create 3D structures that have undercuts with general machines for mass production and laboratory scale prototyping. The minimum layer thickness of the method is at least 4 μm and bonding strength between layers is over 330 kPa. The perfo...

In this paper, we propose SeamlessDesign, a novel collaborative workspace for rapid creation of reactive 3-D objects. SeamlessDesign has two significant characteristics in terms of seamless. First, SeamlessDesign supports a wide range of designing processes seamlessly. Users of SeamlessDesign can design from rough drafts to highly detailed 3-D objects in a unified and intuitive manner, includin...

This paper describes how a link between Virtual Reality and Rapid Prototyping was established at Clemson to enhance the designer’s understanding of manufacturing issues. It concentrates on the topic of support structures for rapid prototyping processes. The paper presents a survey of the litera ture in the area of Virtual Reality and discusses some of the issues of translating an STL model into...