REVIEW ARTICLE


Compression Research of Bitmap Data in Three-Dimensional Printing



Xu Li-Jun*, 1, Gao Jun2, Zhang Wei-Yu1
1 Art and Design Department, Nanjing Institute of Technology, 211167, Nanjing, China
2 Mechanical Engineering Department, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, 210094, Nanjing, China

Article Information


Identifiers and Pagination:

Year: 2015
Volume: 9
First Page: 646
Last Page: 652
Publisher Id: TOMEJ-9-646
DOI: 10.2174/1874155X01509010646

Article History:

Received Date: 17/2/2014
Revision Received Date: 21/3/2015
Acceptance Date: 9/6/2015
Electronic publication date: 16/9/2015
Collection year: 2015

© 2015 Li-Jun et al

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* Address correspondence to this author at the Art and Design Department, Nanjing Institute of Technology, 211167, Nanjing, China; Tel: +86013770311954; E-mail: xulijun_nit@163.com


Abstract

In the paper, it makes 3-D (three dimensional) printing rapid prototyping bitmap data compression research based on bytes has been conducted, in the 3-D printing rapid prototyping system, where the bitmap data format is adopted, and related data storage space is very large. It firstly analyzes the bitmap data characteristics in 3-D printing rapid prototyping system and the commonly methods used in nondestructive bitmap compression, and it designs the bitmap data compression coding method based on bytes. The compression method has the characteristics such as high compression ratio, fast speed of compression and decompression, less time consuming, etc. Therefore, it can meet the increasing demand of data compression in the 3-D printing rapid prototyping system.

Keywords: Data compression, product design, research, three-dimensional printing.