Objective
The proposed research is directed at developing a software tool for producing photorealistic, synthetic images of manufactured objects and providing a simulation technology which substitutes, either partially or totally, some production phases.
The Phirma Core
The PHIRMA prototype is based on a client/server distributed model. The designer can import a 3D model from external CAD/Modelers. Once the model is imported, materials, camera, anchors, lights can be defined within the Phirma server and the scene can be rendered; all the information about the objects in the scene can be stored into a database.
The Multimedia Catalogue
The final user can create his own scenario, for example a kitchen, by interacting with the PHIRMA client. The user can select the components (for example the oven, the sink etc.) from the database. He can position the selected item onto a 2D board. Once the scenario has been assembled, the PHIRMA client can generate the corresponding 3D scene, which can be explored using the PHIRMA browser.
The PHIRMA 3D browser
PHIRMA 3D is a VRML 1.0 compatible browser for SGI/UNIX and PC systems. It provides a scene viewer that allows full movement within and between scenes, high quality rendering facilities and multiple rendering modes for optimising performance and responsiveness in complex scenes.
The browser is responsible for performing 3D transformations and fast rendering locally on the client machine. Furthermore, some powerful rendering servers may be asked for a more realistic rendering of a given view.
The Material Generation
The material Generation was approached on a theoretical basis. What was analysed within the context of the PHIRMA project were two main ideas:
evaluating aesthetic characteristics of stone slab materials
realistic synthetic image generation of stone slab materials.
Techniques based on Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) were analysed in order to generate realistic images of large stone slices from a smaller sample (a 2 square metre slice). Henceforth, once an image of the material has been established, and its spatial properties are known, the problem remains to find the Fourier Transform which generates the same material with scaled dimensions while still maintaining its spatial properties.
The motivating observation for the initiation of the PHIRMA project is that the available commercial systems do not adequately solve the technical and economical problems of computer assisted prototyping in the industrial sectors of interior furnishings, architecture in stone and manufactured objects. Particular emphasis will be given to the objects in-stone.
The major research tasks involved are :
- Development of specific features for the realistic representation of objects, such as the material generation, which includes ad-hoc techniques for stone texturing,
- Development of a kernel system whci integrates pre-existing software applications such as geometric modelers, nesting/cutting optimisers, cost estimators,
- Development of a user interface and interaction paradigms which are oriented to designers with no programming skills,
- Open-system and shared-service architectural approaches which will characterise the PHIRMA system.
Successful completion of the project will result in a high-end product whose cost is half that of commercial packages. The economic benefit for the users of the PHIRMA system is proportional to the reduction in the time-to-market of a given product. Use of this system in the furnishing industry, for example, is expected to reduce the pre-prototyping costs up to 60 %. In architectural applications involving the prototyping of marble/granite surfaces, the use of PHIRMA is expected to reduce the pre-prototyping costs up to 45 %. In general, benefits should be obtained whenever virtual products will replace real products.
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56033 Capannoli
Italy
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