Dental Materials Journal
Online ISSN : 1881-1361
Print ISSN : 0287-4547
ISSN-L : 0287-4547
Original Paper
Development of three-dimensional patient face model that enables real-time collision detection and cutting operation for a dental simulator
Satoshi YAMAGUCHIYuya YAMADAYoshinori YOSHIDAHiroshi NOBORIOSatoshi IMAZATO
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2012 Volume 31 Issue 6 Pages 1047-1053

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Abstract

The virtual reality (VR) simulator is a useful tool to develop dental hand skill. However, VR simulations with reactions of patients have limited computational time to reproduce a face model. Our aim was to develop a patient face model that enables real-time collision detection and cutting operation by using stereolithography (STL) and deterministic finite automaton (DFA) data files. We evaluated dependence of computational cost and constructed the patient face model using the optimum condition for combining STL and DFA data files, and assessed the computational costs for operation in do-nothing, collision, cutting, and combination of collision and cutting. The face model was successfully constructed with low computational costs of 11.3, 18.3, 30.3, and 33.5 ms for do-nothing, collision, cutting, and collision and cutting, respectively. The patient face model could be useful for developing dental hand skill with VR.

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© 2012 The Japanese Society for Dental Materials and Devices
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