Method and Device to Design, Store and Analyze Patterns of Three Dimensional Structural Elements at the Atomic, Nanoscale, Microscale and Larger Scale Levels

摘要

With the invention, a user is able to input the size, shape, orientation, spacing and bundling of three dimensional structural elements to create a custom-designed material texture. The method computes and stores direction cosines for vectors normal to faces, coordinates of vertices, and coordinates of the center of mass of each face for each structural element. The method orders by distance other structural elements that could interact with a particular structural element within a specified radius. A probe point may advance through the texture in a straight line a number of times specified by the user. The user may also specify the density of sampling points and radius of a sphere within which analysis is performed. Each time the sampling point advances, the method detects which vertex and which face on a structural element the point of analysis is nearest.