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Surface Patterns in Architecture Driven by Image Sampling and Robotic Fabrication

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Design and artwork driven by image sampling processing has a half-century tradition in contemporary art and computer graphics. In the past two decades, a similar approach has been used for the fabrication of abstract surface patterns for building facades. Recent advances in digital manufacturing based on industrial robots have reignited the interest toward developing new design-to-fabrication techniques which can possess intriguing visual and tectonic properties of the facades, based on image sampling processing and abstract image representation. The aim of the paper is to investigate the different strategies for creating surface patterns, based on image sampling and applying industrial robots as fabrication tools. In this paper, three different robotic fabrication strategies for generating surface patterns driven by image sampling are presented.

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This research has been supported by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of Serbia through project no. 451-03-47/2023-01/200156 “Innovative scientific and artistic research from the FTS activity domain”.

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    Bojan Tepavčević, Vesna Stojaković & Marko Jovanović

  2. Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovica 6, 21102, Novi Sad, Serbia

    Mirko Raković

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Tepavčević, B., Stojaković, V., Jovanović, M. et al. Surface Patterns in Architecture Driven by Image Sampling and Robotic Fabrication. Nexus Netw J 25, 887–902 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-023-00739-8

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