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Process For Converting Serial Image To The Sterolithography Apparatus (Sla) Slice File With Automatic Base And Support Generation, Charles F. Knapp, P. L. Charles Fischer, Samuel V. Duplessis
Process For Converting Serial Image To The Sterolithography Apparatus (Sla) Slice File With Automatic Base And Support Generation, Charles F. Knapp, P. L. Charles Fischer, Samuel V. Duplessis
Biomedical Engineering Faculty Patents
Method and apparatus for converting a series of serial section images of an object into a three-dimensional model. The method includes acquiring and storing the series of serial section images, converting, zooming, and interpolating serial section images. The method further includes discriminating the series of serial section images to form a binary image, which is then compressed, and filtered. Further, support data for floating or cantilevered portions of the object and base data are generated, the filtered binary image is translated to produce a plurality of vectors representing pixels of the object, and a three-dimensional model of the object is …