{"id":6871,"date":"2019-12-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/?p=6871"},"modified":"2023-06-21T11:42:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T11:42:50","slug":"compiler-aims-at-wood-fabrication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/compiler-aims-at-wood-fabrication\/","title":{"rendered":"Compiler aims at Wood fabrication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We tend to think that software, and compilers in particular, are \nconcerned with other software rather than the real world. The Carpentry \nCompiler is different – its target really is wood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Researchers at the University of Washington created Carpentry \nCompiler and presented it at SIGGRAPH Asia. The idea is simple to \nunderstand. If you want to make something in wood then you can describe \nthe end result and the Carpentry Compiler will output instructions on \nhow you can make it – taking into account the resources you have to \nhand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This paper presents HL-HELM, a high-level, domain-specific language for expressing abstract, parametric fabrication plans; it also introduces LL-HELM, a low-level language for expressing concrete fabrication plans that take into account the physical constraints of available manufacturing processes. We present a new compiler that supports the real-time, unoptimized translation of high-level, geometric fabrication operations into concrete, tool-specific fabrication instructions; this gives users immediate feedback on the physical feasibility of plans as they design them.<\/em>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For me the interesting features are the way it uses a range of \npossible starting materials and the complex mix of tools available with \nwhich you have to work out how to make the object. It even works out a \ncutting plan that minimizes your work. If you play around with such \nthings you might share my feeling that this spoils a lot of the fun. \nThere is nothing so good as planning how to make something using what \nyou have – but I can also see the attraction of automating the process \nif fun isn’t your only concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To see some of the detail check out the video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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