Lasse Laursen

Virtual Cuts


Summary

Pork is big business in Denmark. Tiny improvements on each individual product translates into several million dollars saved. In 2009, a growing interest in product optimization coupled with the recent introduction of CT-scanning in the Danish abattoirs paved the way for new methods of product optimization.

Enter virtual realistic cuts, aka. PorkCAD. Utilizing CT-scanned data from a real pig carcass, the tool provides a new edge in pork product development, allowing sellers and buyers a better way to communicate the product that they bring to the market together. Using a Phantom Omni, the user is able to create, modify, and delete planar cuts in an effort to virtually create the type of pork product the seller is interested in.

Associated Publications

  • PorkCAD: Case study of the design of a pork product prototyper
    Lasse Farnung Laursen, Jakob Andreas Bærentzen, Takeo Igarashi, Michael Kai Petersen, Line Katrine Haarder Clemmensen, Bjarne Kjær Ersbøll, Lars Bager Christensen, in IASDR '13: 5th International Congress of International Association of Societies of Design Research, pp. 1134-1
    Local PDF | Published PDF
  • Registration-based interpolation real-time volume visualization
    Lasse Farnung Laursen, Hildur Ólafsdóttir, Jakob Andreas Bærentzen, Michael Sass Hansen, Bjarne Kjær Ersbøll, in SCCG '12: Proceedings of the 28th Spring Conference on Computer Graphics, pp. 15-21
    Published PDF
  • Anisotropic 3D texture synthesis with application to volume rendering
    Lasse Farnung Laursen, Bjarne Kjær Ersbøll, Jakob Andreas Bærentzen, in WSCG '11: Winter School of Computer Graphics 2011, pp. 49-57
    Local PDF | Published PDF
  • Registration-based interpolation real-time volume visualization
    Lasse Farnung Laursen, Hildur Ólafsdóttir, Jakob Andreas Bærentzen, Michael Sass Hansen, Bjarne Kjær Ersbøll, in SCCG '12: Proceedings of the 28th Spring Conference on Computer Graphics, pp. 15-21
    Published PDF

Quick Facts

  • Ph.D. Project, completed over 3 years from 2009 to 2012
  • Real-time Volumetric Renderer running on Mobile Graphics Cards coded in C++
  • Real-time hardware supported volume-data slicing
  • Phantom Omni integration
  • First of its kind, computer aided pork product design
  • Qualitative user-study with 8 participants, in collaboration with Danish Crown and Danish Technological Institute

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Lessons Learned

PorkCAD is to date still the longest and most cohesive project I've ever been involved in. It was a learning experience most of the way, and while I must admit my interest in the project did not remain constant throughout, it helped give me perspective and realize that not all projects have to turn out the way you expect. Lessons can still be learned and valuable experience is still yours, as long as you are willing to look and listen. One of the greatest lessons learned from both the design and testing of the system presented was how quickly and 'easily' senior personnel were able to handle the final product. Nothing can even come close to scratch the intuitive nature of analogous behavior. If you have identical behavior occurring both on- and off-screen, then you're on the right path.


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