TPMS Designer: A tool for generating and analyzing triply periodic minimal surfaces
Alistair Jones, Martin Leary, Stuart Bateman, Mark Easton
Abstract
Implicitly defined structures such as triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) have potential applications in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. TPMS Designer is a tool for rapidly generating, visualizing and analyzing implicitly defined structures. The software allows users to parametrically modify the size, aspect ratio, rotation, and resolution of a structure. Cellular volume fraction can be adjusted using surface type and isovalue options. TPMS Designer includes tools for importing and exporting to traditional computer aided design programs. Properties of a surface such as orientation and curvature can be analyzed using in-built visualization techniques.
Topics & Concepts
Minimal surfaceVisualizationEngineering drawingSurface (topology)Rotation (mathematics)Computer scienceOrientation (vector space)SoftwareCurvatureComputer graphics (images)EngineeringGeometryMathematicsArtificial intelligenceProgramming language3D Shape Modeling and AnalysisComputational Geometry and Mesh GenerationArchitecture and Computational Design