Some Ideas for Your CS285 Course Project (more to come ...)

• "A_MAZE_ing Shapes" -- Put a maze on the Stanford Bunny.
  Make a simple maze generator for a square region. Suitably place and connect such maze-squares on a quadrilateral mesh of the Stanford bunny model (or some other fancy non-polyhedral shape).


• 3D Escher Tiling
  Create a fancy 3D shape that tiles 3D space. Demonstrate stackability with a few solid tiles fabricated on the FDM machine.


• Sophisticated Gear Clusters
  Create some planetary gear like this one or some fancy polyhedral gear like this or like this ...


• Jitterbug Linkages and Hoberman Spheres
  Design, analyze, and model as a kinematic SLIDE file a cluster of mechanical linkages that transforms in intriguing ways.


• Generator for Urban Models
  Write a program module that generates houses, city blocks, or larger urban structures.


• Sculpture Generator
  Design a program for the production of artistic geometrical sculptures.


• Unusual Bells
  Design an intriguing bell shape with a few parameters to change this shape
  -- and possibly simulate its FEM model for sound analysis.


• Symmetry Finder
  Try to find the inherent (approximate) symmetries in the shape of a scanned in object or some other (irregular) mesh ... (perhaps by Eigenanalysis?).


• Construction Kit Prototype
  Design a system of tiles that can snap together into 3D non-2-manifold cellular structures.


• A Better(?) Lego Block
  Design novel "lego" bricks with interesting assembly possibilities; -- for instance, something inspired by the two rhombic Zonohedra bricks that allow aperiodic (Penrose) tiling of 3-space.


• Experimental CAD Utilities
  Construct a "playground" to experiment with wavelet-based Miniumum (curvature) Variation Curves or Surfaces.

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