Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Linjie Luo

Zhengyou Zhang

Wojciech Matusik

Cha Zhang

Ilya Baran

The disclosure provides a technique for recursively partitioning a 3D model of an object into two or more components such that each component fits within a predefined printing volume. The technique includes determining a set of planar cuts each of which partitions the 3D model into at least two components, evaluating one or more objective functions for each cut in the set of planar cuts, and selecting a cut from the set of planar cuts based on the evaluations of the objective functions. In addition, the technique includes, upon determining that a component resulting from the selected cut does not fit within the predefined printing volume, further partitioning that component.

Partitioning models into 3D-printable components

The subject disclosure is directed towards reconstructing an approximate hair surface using refinement of hair strands. Hair strands are first extracted from 2D images of a camera array, and projected onto a 3D visual hull. The 3D positions of these strands are refined by optimizing an objective function that takes into account orientation consistency, a visual hull constraint and/or smoothness constraints defined at the strand, wisp and/or global levels.

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Linjie Luo