Goal

Strategy

Benefits

Time Frame

The strategy of the project FIORES includes the following steps:
 

	Analysis of the application areas for computer aided styling by collecting information about used and desired tools, methods and information flows.
	Formalization of aesthetic properties of free form shapes by using feature-like concepts as they are known from mechanical engineering.
	Development of new theoretical methods, concepts, and algorithms for design and quality control in the reverse engineering process of aesthetic shapes.
	Implementation of a software prototype, based on a modular, object-based approach.
	Validation and measure of the prototype on real industrial parts within the companies.

The following figures show the classic and the new workflow optimized for aesthetic design.

The resulting benefits are...