SBIR Phase I: Computer-Aided Mosaic Design and Construction

SBIR 第一阶段：计算机辅助马赛克设计和施工

• 批准号: 1047077
• 负责人: Edward Acworth
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Artaic LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-01-01 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1047077&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Computer; Aided; Mosaic

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project seeks to develop a comprehensive software toolkit for creating digital mosaic artwork. Mosaics have proven to be a great source of visual splendor for thousands of years. Despite their prominence in art and architecture, mosaics are arduous to design and assemble by hand. The goal of this Phase I project is to build and test software tools to automate production of digital mosaic artwork. After integration with robotic assembly in Phase II, the proposed automation will significantly lower the time and cost for designing and manufacturing mosaic artwork. In Phase I, Artaic proposes to combine two leading methodologies for digital tile layout - procedural and optimization-based algorithms - to closely mimic the workflow of mosaic artists. Artists will sketch curves to denote perceptually important edges along which the tiles should be oriented, while algorithms will determine tile placement in response to user-defined parameters, rendering styles, and composition rulesIf successful, this work will have broad commercial potential in art, design, and architecture. Software and robotic automation will lower the cost of mosaics and increase its traditional societal impact of adorning public, commercial, and residential spaces. This will also have spillover benefits, including growing use of this artform in advertising, entertainment, and visual effects. The ultimate goal of Artaic is to leverage this software with custom robotics to create physical mosaics. This will enable Artaic to expand into a multi-billion dollar market and grow a domestic workforce. The fact that there is a software outlet for this work in addition to a proven commercial market for large-scale physical output adds to the case for the advancement of the proposed research.

这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目寻求开发一个全面的软件工具包，用于创建数字马赛克艺术品。几千年来，马赛克一直被证明是视觉辉煌的伟大源泉。尽管马赛克在艺术和建筑方面很突出，但手工设计和组装仍然很困难。这个第一阶段项目的目标是构建和测试软件工具，以实现数字马赛克艺术品的自动化生产。在第二阶段与机器人组装集成后，拟议的自动化将显著降低设计和制造马赛克艺术品的时间和成本。在第一阶段，Artaic建议结合两种领先的数字瓷砖布局方法-程序算法和基于优化的算法-以紧密模仿马赛克艺术家的工作流程。艺术家将绘制曲线来表示瓷砖应该沿着的感知重要的边缘，而算法将根据用户定义的参数、渲染样式和构图规则来确定瓷砖的位置。如果成功，这项工作将在艺术、设计和建筑方面具有广泛的商业潜力。软件和机器人自动化将降低马赛克的成本，并增加其装饰公共、商业和住宅空间的传统社会影响。这也将产生溢出效应，包括在广告、娱乐和视觉效果中越来越多地使用这种艺术形式。Artaic的最终目标是利用该软件和定制机器人来创建物理马赛克。这将使Artaic能够扩张到一个数十亿美元的市场，并发展国内劳动力。除了已证实的大规模实物产出的商业市场外，这项工作还有一个软件销售渠道，这一事实增加了推进拟议研究的理由。