A large number of vertices and triangles in 3D relief models may result in much memory cost when 3D printing them. To handle this problem, we present a novel and efficient approach for 3D relief meshes, which is achieved by representing the input 3D fine relief mesh as a coarse mesh with a bump map and applying the slic-ing computation on the coarse mesh instead of the fine mesh. The algorithm consists of three steps. First, the coarse mesh is refined by an adaptive mid-point subdivision with the depth derived from the bump map. Second, we compute and store the slicing using the refined mesh and then release the memory storage of this mesh. Fi-nally, the slicing is used for generating the printing path in 3D printing. Experimental results have shown that the proposed method has greatly improved the efficiency of computing and reduced the memory storage in 3D print-ing relief models.%针对3D浮雕网格点数、面数空间占用大在打印过程中耗费内存等缺点提出将凹凸贴图表示的浮雕模型r直接进行切片完成打印并提出基于凹凸贴图的浮雕网格的3D打印自适应细分切片算法.在切片过程中先对输入的粗网格根据凹凸图深度信息进行自适应中点细分并更新细分后三角网格顶点的几何位置;然后对生成的局部三r角网格集合与切片进行求交运算将所获得的交线段存储后释放此三角形集合的内存;最后将生成的交线段重组成r闭合多边形生成打印路径交由打印机完成浮雕模型打印.实验结果证明将凹凸贴图推广到3D打印中与传统r的打印过程进行对比该方法的空间利用率得到显著性提高.
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