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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2016
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
Lluis Abello Rosello, Sant Cugat del Valles-Barcelona, ES;
Alvar Vinacua, Sant Cugat del Valles-Barcelona, ES;
Pere Brunet, Sant Cugat del Valles-Barcelona, ES;
Marc Comino, Sant Cugat del Valles-Barcelona, ES;
Jordi Gonzalez Rogel, Sant Cugat del Valles-Barcelona, ES;
Sergio Gonzalez, Sant Cugat del Valles-Barcelona, ES;
Josep Giralt Adroher, Sant Cugat del Valles-Barcelona, ES;
Sebastia Cortes Herms, Sant Cugat del Valles-Barcelona, ES;
Alex Carruesco Llorens, Sant Cugat del Valles-Barcelona, ES;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.C, Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
In an example, a method includes receiving, at a processor, data representing at least part of an object to be manufactured in a layer-by-layer manufacturing process. A serialised octree representation of at least part of the object may be generated from the data. In the serialised octree representation, nodes are ordered such that (i) a node representing a volume which includes a layer of the object to be generated earlier in an intended order of object generation precedes a node representing a volume which consists of layer(s) of the object to be generated subsequently; (ii) nodes representing a volume which includes a given layer of the object are ordered based on a level of the nodes within the octree representation, wherein parent nodes appear before descendent nodes; and (iii) nodes representing a volume which includes a given layer of the object and being of the same level within the octree representation are ordered according to a location encoding pattern.