Indexing voxels for 3D printing
US10839598B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 26, 2016 |
| Grant date | Nov 17, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 26, 2036 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T19/20
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
One example includes a non-transitory machine readable storage medium including voxels organized by an octree and at least one quad-tree index. The octree defines an object to be three-dimensionally printed and includes a list of nodes for each depth of the octree where each node includes nodal content representing at least one voxel. The at least one quad-tree index is to index at least one node of the octree and has a depth less than or equal to a maximum resolved depth. The at least one quad-tree index is to be accessed by computer executable instructions to retrieve nodal content from the octree to control a processor to process the object to be three-dimensionally printed.
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