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Simulation and visualization of NC milling processes has become an important step in computer aided manufacturing. The usage of stock materials with specific locally varying properties (like density, accuracy, color, ...) becomes more and more important with new technologies emerging in the material industry. Our new approach, using volumetric representation, has been adapted to this needs and copes with inhomogeneous material properties. Taking color as one possible material property, our approach enables the visualization of milled wood or compound materials. Furthermore, our approach has been developed with the usage of low-end graphics hardware in mind. The algorithms have been optimized to ensure interactive update rates even on standard personal computers without hardware graphics acceleration.

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@techreport{Koenig-1998-NC,
  title =      "Real Time Simulation and Visualization of NC
               Milling
Processes for Inhomogeneous Materials on Low-End
               Graphics Hardware",
  author =     "Andreas K{\"o}nig and Meister Eduard Gr{\"o}ller",
  year =       "1998",
  abstract =   "Simulation and visualization of NC milling processes has
               become an important step in computer aided manufacturing.
               The usage of stock materials with specific locally varying
               properties (like density, accuracy, color, ...) becomes more
               and more important with new technologies emerging in the
               material industry.  Our new approach, using volumetric
               representation, has been adapted to this needs and copes
               with inhomogeneous material properties. Taking color as one
               possible material property, our approach enables the
               visualization of milled wood or compound materials.
               Furthermore, our approach has been developed with the usage
               of low-end graphics hardware in mind. The algorithms have
               been optimized to ensure interactive update rates even on
               standard personal computers without hardware graphics
               acceleration.",
  address =    "Favoritenstrasse 9-11/186, A-1040 Vienna, Austria",
  institution = "Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna
               University of Technology",
  note =       "human contact: technical-report@cg.tuwien.ac.at",
  month =      jan,
  number =     "TR-186-2-98-04",
  keywords =   "visualization, NC milling",
  URL =        "http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/1998/Koenig-1998-NC/",
}