Digital design and evaluation for additive manufacturing of personalized myopic glasses

Abstract

Myopic glasses design has critical effects on the match between glasses and individual face. Improper myopic glasses design may affect the try-on comfort and health. It is difficult for the myopic glasses to be adjusted variedly and suitably from people to people with the limitations of traditional manufacturing processes and current design methods. In this paper, an evaluation descriptor named glasses fit score, which contains alignment scores and design scores, is proposed to guide and evaluate the myopic glasses design. Based on the descriptor, a novel approach is presented to complete the myopic glasses design and manufacturing individually. The approach can be divided into three steps: glasses alignment, glasses personalized design and glasses manufacturing. During the glasses alignment, the myopic glasses are aligned to the face to obtain the alignment score of the descriptor based on the face symmetry plane and feature points, including the silent point of the eye and the top point of the ear. After the glasses alignment, the myopic glasses can be deformed to match the face to achieve the design score of the descriptor. The deformations include glasses frame transformation, glasses leg option and glasses personalized mark. In the glasses manufacturing, the designed myopic glasses can be fabricated by a 3D printer. Then, a post processing process is conducted to polish the myopic glasses with oil painted. Finally, the proposed approach is applied to adjust the myopic glasses for several people. The results show that, compared to the previous methods, the approach can make the myopic glasses aligned and deformed to the individual face effectively to obtain an ideal score of the descriptor, thus improving the match between the glasses and the individual face.

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