On families of objects and their semantics

An approach is presented to define a family of objects in parametric modelling. It avoids an inherent problem of boundary re-evaluation in current parametric modelling systems. Even more important, it offers an effective way to define the properties, or semantics, of a family of objects. A family of objects is defined by a prototype feature model, including several types of constraints to precisely specOrits semantics. A family membership test is used to check whether an instance corresponding to a particular set of parameter values belongs to a family. The underlying geometric representation is a non-manifold cellular model.

@InProceedings { BB00b,
  author       = "Bidarra, Rafael and Bronsvoort, Willem F.",
  title        = "On families of objects and their semantics",
  booktitle    = "Proceedings of Geometric Modeling and Processing 2000 - Theory and Applications",
  pages        = "101--111",
  month        = "apr",
  year         = "2000",
  editor       = "Martin, R and Wang, W",
  publisher    = "IEEE Computer Society, CA",
  address      = "Hong Kong, China",
  url          = "http://graphics.tudelft.nl/Publications-new/2000/BB00b"
}