Dynamic Split-Screen for Visualizing Events in Augmented Reality

This paper introduces the concept of the Voronoi Split-Screen in Augmented Reality inside a Sailing Regatta visualization application. We are making use of existing methods in 2D environments and modifying them to treat the implications of merging the screen where a user has complete camera control (3D/AR/VR). This is done in three phases which...

Paris 2024: A cyclist's reinterpretation of movement at the Olympic Games

The current project represents the creation of space for a new paradigm in Olympic sports: the introduction of virtual cycling, enabled through the latest technologies in indoor cycling and offering the capacity to connect athletes from all over the world. On an architectural level, it challenges the white elephant phenomena, concept used to...

Estimating the cell volume distribution of a 3D Laguerre-Voronoi diagram from a planar section: With applications to materials science

For modelling microstructures of materials the Voronoi diagram is one of the most commonly used models. In this thesis we study a generalization of Voronoi diagrams known as the Laguerre-Voronoi diagram. In particular, we consider the stereological problem of estimating the 3D cell volume distribution of such a diagram from one of its 2D planar...

Prediction of lifetime and failure mechanisms of rolling contacts in DOT Direct Drive Pump

In recent years, the increased need for renewable energy has put more interest in wind energy and therefore in making wind turbines more efficient and building them as efficiently and cheap as possible. Delft Offshore Turbines (DOT) is developing a drivetrain that replaces the heavy and expensive parts in the nacelle of a...

Urban Morphological Analysis for Wind Potential

Wind has a profound impact on the meteorological and environmental conditions in cities. And so, by understanding wind flow behaviour within the urban environment, we can use the increasingly available open data to contribute to the design of healthy cities. This Master’s thesis presents a methodology to compute urban morphological parameters...

Graded Structures: The design of a grid shell that uses gradual densification to enhance the performance of the overall structure

This graduation thesis aimed to find an answer to the following question: 'How to design a grid shell for the canopy of a stadium that uses performance based densification to enhance the performance of the structure?'. De Nieuwe Kuip in Rotterdam is used as a case study to put the findings into practice. In order to answer this question a...

About the destruction of objects in computer games: A Real-Time Fracture Method based on Weighted Centroidal Voronoi Diagrams

This thesis deals with improving an existing method that simulates the destruction of objects inside a game environment. The existing method combines physical- and geometry-based methods. The improved method uses a physically based method to calculated internal energy after an impact and uses the energy as a weight function to fracture the...

Radio Propagation Aided Indoor Localization: Indoor localization by applying Proportionate Measurement Localization (PML) using Bluetooth Low Energy tags

Indoor localization is a hot topic since the demand for Location Based Services (LBS) has increased, especially (semi) public places like museums, office buildings and congress halls would benefit from LBS. Outdoor localization and its applications like navigation systems are well implemented in society and used by many on a daily basis....

A Voronoi- and surface-based approach for the automatic generation of depth-contours for hydrographic charts

Depth-contours are an essential part of any hydrographic chart—a map of a waterbody intended for safe ship navigation. Traditionally these were manually drawn by skilled hydrographers from a limited set of surveyed depth measurements. Nowadays this process of map making is shifted towards the digital domain, not in the last place because of the...

EU Consulate: Mediations and Mechanisms

The one-on-one field research in Odessa, Ukraine, resulted in the development of the jump-cut in space. The jump-cut is originally a film editing tool to (un)relate multiple events in a scene, whereas the notion of re-orientation plays an important role. In space it has been interpreted as the movement form one point to the other, being cut by...

hyway

Using paramatric design and swarm based form finding principles to create a building inbetween the highway junction Kleinpolderplein. The building incorporates all the emergency services of the rotterdam rijnmond area.