Application of the Free and Open Source VCAMS Package in Modeling Triply-Periodic Minimal Surfaces

We have previously introduced the free and open source VCAMS software that allows for fast and reproducible model generation for the purpose of synthetic dataset generation. Triply-Periodic Minimal Surfaces (TPMS) are a class of structures that have excellent mechanical and biomedical properties but are very difficult to model which places them out of the reach of some researchers and hinders the quest to generate high quality data for machine learning purposes. Also, the current methods of designing them require manual use of software which makes the process very slow and reduces reproducibility, further reducing data quality. In this paper, we first describe the VCAMS software, its modeling philosophy and graphical and scripting interfaces. Then, we use it to model various TPMS parts of different complexity and present the models.

کلیدواژه ها:

Triply-Periodic Minimal Surfaces ، Porous Structures ، Synthetic Dataset Generation ، Research Software