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William R Doggett

David A Paddock

John R Cooper

Matthew P Vaughan

Iok M Wong

Kyongchan Song

Robert F Martin

Bdanette Allen

Walter J Waltz

James V Plant

Brace W White

Rounak Mukhopadhyay

Sherif A Shazly

David Kang

Ralph A Williams

Patrick A Cosgrove

Systems and methods for mapping a planar surface to a curved surface. One such method comprises providing a planar lattice pattern having identical regular polygon shapes which can be truss support modules for supporting a curved surface structure. Method further include determining respective positions of the nodal points of the identical polygon shapes by placing a starting nodal point on an axis of symmetry of the planar lattice pattern and iteratively positioning each nodal point in relation to already placed neighboring nodes to make a distance between a currently positioned nodal point optimally close with a set value of the planar lattice pattern. Method still further comprises forming a curved lattice pattern of the truss support module based on the positions of the nodal points of the identical polygon shapes.

Tessellation and connection system for space assembly of modular units

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