A Cellular Approach for Feature-Based Modeling

The main goal of this paper is to present a new cellular scheme for feature-based modeling and to show its applicability. With this cellular scheme it becomes possible to distinguish, clearly, and completely, between the morphology and the geometry of a solid. An object is globally and morphologically defined by a collection of interacting form features. Moreover, a form feature is defined as a structured cluster of one or more volumetric cells. As it will be shown, this conceptual scheme facilitates reasoning strategies, at the cellular level, fired from constructive and destructive morphological actions taken at the feature level.