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Simon Fraser University

Richard Zhang, Simon Fraser University

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Just in time for Christmas, Simon Fraser University computing science professor Richard Zhang reveals how to print a 3-D Christmas tree efficiently and with zero material waste, using the world's first algorithm for automatically decomposing a 3-D object into what are called pyramidal parts.

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