Point Cloud Slicing For 3-D Printing

This paper revisits a more than half a century-old problem: slice a free-form object into layers for manufacturing. A point-based approach is taken that would have been prohibitive even a decade ago. Due to modern hardware, plenty of storage and a plethora of software packages, the time has come to ditch complicated and error prone numerical code and deploy a simple point-based method to achieve robustness and accuracy that have been lacking for a very long time.

William Oropallo, Les A Piegl, Paul Rosen, and Khairan Rajab. Point Cloud Slicing For 3-D Printing. Computer-Aided Design and Applications, 2018.

@article{oropallo2018point,
  title = {Point Cloud Slicing for 3-D Printing},
  author = {Oropallo, William and Piegl, Les A and Rosen, Paul and Rajab, Khairan},
  journal = {Computer-Aided Design and Applications},
  volume = {15},
  pages = {90--97},
  year = {2018},
  note = {textit{Presented at the CAD Conference and Exhibition 2018.}},
  abstract = {This paper revisits a more than half a century-old problem: slice a
    free-form object into layers for manufacturing. A point-based approach is taken that
    would have been prohibitive even a decade ago. Due to modern hardware, plenty of storage
    and a plethora of software packages, the time has come to ditch complicated and error
    prone numerical code and deploy a simple point-based method to achieve robustness and
    accuracy that have been lacking for a very long time.}
}