Overview
Professor Ganter is involved in applied computational geometry, solid modeling
and computer graphics. His main research activities focus on application of
computational techniques to engineering problems.
Research involves the development of new data representation for solid modeling
(termed implicit solid modeling or F-Reps), development of implicit solids for
design, development of implicit solids for layered manufacturing, extension of
techniques for skeleton generation for implicit solid modeling, refinement of
previously developed surface-surface intersection algorithms.
Current work focuses on 3D volume (voxel) space representations, object segmentation (including biological), wavelets representations of volume data. Development of new materials and processes for 3D printing and 3D printing systems (including ceramic printing materials).
Prior research work includes cam design, wire-frame to solid modeling data
conversion, solid modeling development, swept solids, 3-D convex hull
algorithms, dynamic collision detection, surface-surface intersection
algorithms, the collection of rule sets and implementation of a molding parting
line development system, and the use and extension of feature extraction
techniques of solid modeling for the development of molding patterns, and fusion
of multi-spectral vision images for improved machine vision and recognition.