Raindrop Geomagic Receives Phase II NSF Grant to Create Higher-Quality Surfaces from Scan Data.RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C. -- Functional Decomposition Breaking down a process into non-redundant operations. In structured programming, it provides a hierarchical breakdown of the program into the individual operations, or routines, that are required. Method Preserves Form and Function for Computer-Aided Design computer-aided design (CAD) or computer-aided design and drafting (CADD), form of automation that helps designers prepare drawings, specifications, parts lists, and other design-related elements using special graphics- and calculations-intensive The National Science Foundation (NSF NSF - National Science Foundation ) has awarded Raindrop Geomagic an SBIR SBIR Small Business Innovation Research (program/grant) SBIR Space Based Infra-Red SBIR Speaker-Boundary Interference SBIR Site Backsurface-referenced Ideal Plane/Range (silicon wafers) Phase II grant to extend the company's research into advanced techniques for creating surface models from point clouds. The latest grant builds on Raindrop Geomagic's successful work last year under a Phase I grant to research functional decomposition - a method for creating high-quality CAD surfaces from polygonal meshes. Under Phase II research, surfaces created from scan data will be structured as a standard CAD model, which will reduce design time for automotive, aerospace and consumer product industries. The research is expected to result in trimmed analytic and NURBS surfaces that retain design intent. Trimming lines will be generated automatically along connecting features, such as fillets or swept surfaces. Optimized patch layout will ensure a higher degree of smoothness, and surface fitting will be controlled automatically by tolerances. The latest NSF grant is the second Phase II SBIR award that Raindrop Geomagic has received. Both grants center on innovative research in capturing a physical object and transforming it into an accurate digital model ready for redesign, manufacturing and inspection. "This is further validation that Raindrop Geomagic is leading the industry in combining automation with high-quality surfaces for digital design and reconstruction of physical objects," says Dr. Tamas Varady, Raindrop Geomagic's chief technology officer. "Our extended research under this grant will enable our customers to preserve the original details of form and function that are needed in computer-aided design. We are grateful to NSF for supporting our technical team and recognizing the vast commercial potential of this research." About Raindrop Geomagic Raindrop Geomagic (www.geomagic.com) is based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., and has wholly owned subsidiaries Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. in Europe and Asia. The company's technology is used in applications such as digital dentistry, historic preservation of the Statue of Liberty Statue of Liberty great symbolic structure in New York harbor. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 284] See : America Statue of Liberty perhaps the most famous monument to independence. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 284] See : Freedom , redesign of a retro Harley-Davidson gas tank, and quality inspection to ensure that circuit breakers Circuit breakers Measures instituted by exchanges to stop trading temporarily when the market has fallen by a certain percentage in a specified period. They are intended to prevent a market free fall by permitting buy and sell orders to rebalance. will last 400 years. More than 3,000 users worldwide turn to Raindrop Geomagic to provide the technology for customizing products, automating processes, and increasing throughput. High-resolution image available upon request |
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