System and method for morphable model design space definition

An exemplar design selection system, comprising:

• a computing device having a memory;
• a display device operatively connected to the computing device;
• a selection device operatively connected to the computing device;
• a user interface configured for use with the display and selection device;
• a datastore of exemplar designs, each exemplar design including a first portion and a second portion, the datastore being stored in the memory;
• a design space creation module operatively connected to the computing device configured to create a design space from a set of selected exemplar designs including a first portion and a second portion wherein the user interface allows the selection of a plurality of exemplar designs for processing by the design space module to generate a statistical model;
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• an update module operatively connected to the computing device including instructions for applying at least one constraint to at least one selectable feature of the first portion of the exemplar for updating both the first portion and the second portion and generating a new model from the statistical model.

A product for designing complex geometric shapes, comprising:

• a tangible media for storing instructions capable of being executed by a computer;
• instructions for storing in a memory a datastore of exemplar designs having a first portion and a second portion;
• instructions for processing a set of selected exemplar designs including the first portions and the second portions;
• instructions for creating a design space from a set of selected exemplar designs;
• instructions for mixing the set a set of selected exemplar designs to form a statistical model;
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• instructions for applying one or more constraints to a selectable feature of the first portion of the statistical model to form a morphed geometric shape design of the first portion and the second portion.