METHODOLOGY FOR ADAPTING NATIONAL ORNAMENT COMPOSITIONS TO DIGITAL INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING
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This article proposes a three-stage methodology for adapting national ornament compositions (girih, islimiy, gul families) to the requirements of digitally controlled manufacturing equipment — CNC milling, laser and plasma cutting, and additive 3D printing. The methodology first formalizes the ornament geometry at the level of its symmetry group, then simplifies it according to manufacturing constraints such as kerf width, minimum radius, and material thickness (tolerance-aware simplification), and finally exports the result into a machine-readable vector/G-code format. The methodology was implemented in software on the NaqshAI platform and tested at the geometric level on patterns belonging to the p4m and p6m symmetry groups. The analysis shows that inserting a dedicated adaptation stage between the geometric model and the manufacturing implementation reduces their mutual dependency and eases the transfer of the methodology across different equipment.
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