Computation and visualization of fabrication artifacts

This paper proposes a novel technique to measure fabrication artifacts through direct comparison of a reference surface model with the corresponding industrial CT volume. Our technique uses the information from the surface model to locate corresponding points in the CT dataset. We then compute various comparison metrics to measure differences (fabrication artifacts) between the two datasets. The differences are presented to the user both visually as well as quantitatively. Our comparison techniques are divided into two groups, namely geometry-driven comparison techniques and visual-driven comparison techniques. The geometry-driven techniques provide an overview, while the visual-driven techniques can be used for a localized examination.