This study investigates the relationship between three visual representations (twodimensional, three-dimensional fixed, and three-dimensional rotatable) of multidimensional data, and the subjects’ ability to make predictions based on the data. Output of a momentum accounting system was simulated and graphics were rendered based on that information. An interactive computer program was developed ...

The ability to create architected materials that possess both high stiffness and toughness remains an elusive goal, since these properties are often mutually exclusive. Natural materials, such as bone, overcome such limitations by combining different toughening mechanisms across multiple length scales. Here, a new method for creating architected lattices composed of core-shell struts that are b...

3D printing is expected to revolutionize health care through uses in tissue and organ fabrication; creation of customized prosthetics, implants, and anatomical models; and pharmaceutical research regarding drug dosage forms, delivery, and discovery.

We present a framework for automatically synthesizing new analytical BRDFs to model classes of measured materials using a heuristic-based search commonly called Genetic Programming. Our approach can be seen as an extension of traditional approaches to reflectance modeling that rely either on a phenomenological process or a physically-based model. In both cases, our technique augments the human ...

Multimaterial 3D printing using microfluidic printheads specifically designed for seamless switching between two visco-elastic materials "on-the-fly" during fabrication is demonstrated. This approach opens new avenues for the digital assembly of functional matter with controlled compositional and property gradients at the microscale.

3D printing is a relatively new, rapidly expanding method of manufacturing that found numerous applications in healthcare, automotive, aerospace and defense industries and in many other areas. In this review, applications in medicine that are revolutionizing the way surgeries are carried out, disrupting prosthesis and implant markets as well as dentistry will be presented. The relatively new fi...

Volumetric energy backprojection captures the effects of myriad physical processes including global illumination and reconstruction. We present a method to perform efficient volumetric backprojection in software. We develop a new method for global illumination based on iterated volumetric backprojection. We demonstrate how computed tomography and visible light reconstruction can be implemented ...