A geometrical model generator for quasi-axisymmetric fruit

Seppe Rogge University of Leuven
Shiferaw Beyene University of Leuven
Els Herremans University of Leuven
Thijs Defraeye University of Leuven
Pieter Verboven University of Leuven
Bart Nicolai University of Leuven

Keywords: elliptic Fourier descriptors, shape description, shape generation, biological variability

Abstract

A geometrical model generator for fruit is presented. The generator uses X-ray tomography images of quasi-axisymmetric fruit as input, describes the shape of the fruit with elliptical Fourier descriptors, and uses statistical analysis to randomly generate new representative fruit shapes from this dataset, which can be directly used as CAD models for CFD or FEM analysis.

Published

2013-06-03

Issue

FSPM2013

Section

1B Reconstructing and observing plant structure

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