Wood is the oldest building material, it is still in demand today. True, traditional skills are no longer enough for joiners and carpenters to create complex modern structures. And here new technologies come to their aid.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo's Creative Informatics Department have developed a 3D design application called Tsuqite to quickly, easily and efficiently design wood components.
Thanks to him, with the help of a simple three-dimensional interface, users with modest skills (and even in their complete absence) will be able to create complex structures in a matter of minutes, after which milling machines will perform the necessary processing of wooden blanks. In the future, following the instructions on the screen, it will be possible to assemble the necessary structures from them without the help of connecting parts and glue.
Tsuqite represents wood joints as voxels, which are essentially three-dimensional pixels, and in this particular case, small cubes. These voxels can be moved at the ends of the workpiece so that they are guaranteed to fit snugly together without nails or glue. Two or more components can be connected, and the software algorithm will configure their combination as needed.
The researchers hope that with further enhancements, Tsugite can be scaled not only to create furniture and small structures, but entire buildings.
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