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  "abstract": "Three-dimensional generative models have achieved substantial progress in synthesizing geometric structures, yet the mechanisms underlying the formation of many natural and material surfaces remain distinct from conventional geometry-first generation. Drying, shrinkage, and fracture provide an alternative perspective in which three-dimensional shapes emerge through the progressive loss of moisture, spatially nonuniform contraction, stress accumulation, threshold-triggered cracking, crack propagation, and structural separation. This paper proposes Drying-Induced Fracture Generation (DIFG), a conceptual framework for three-dimensional generative computing that treats drying-induced mechanical evolution as an explicit shape-generation process rather than merely as a source of surface texture.\n\nDIFG represents an evolving object through a moisture field, a shrinkage field, a mechanical stress state, a damage field, and a dynamically updated geometric representation. Its central computational mechanism consists of five coupled operations: moisture-dependent contraction, stress accumulation, fracture-threshold evaluation, crack propagation, and geometry reconstruction. Local material heterogeneity, boundary constraints, drying gradients, and fracture-history dependence jointly determine the resulting morphology. The framework additionally incorporates warping, fragment formation, and multiscale surface deformation.\n\nDIFG is designed to operate with mesh-based geometry, point clouds, signed distance fields, neural implicit representations, and differentiable rendering representations. It can also be integrated with three-dimensional diffusion models or other learned generative systems. The proposed formulation establishes a research direction in which physical transformation becomes a computational mechanism for synthesizing geometry. This paper defines the conceptual architecture, mathematical formulation, generation algorithm, learning objectives, evaluation protocol, and potential applications. No experimental validation is claimed; the proposed method requires implementation and empirical comparison to establish its effectiveness and novelty.",
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      "name": "Jincheng Zhang",
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  "published": "2026-10-25",
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  "title": "Drying-Induced Fracture Generation (DIFG): A Stress-Accumulation Framework for Three-Dimensional Shape Synthesis Through Moisture Loss, Shrinkage, and Structural Separation",
  "title_text": "Drying-Induced Fracture Generation (DIFG): A Stress-Accumulation Framework for Three-Dimensional Shape Synthesis Through Moisture Loss, Shrinkage, and Structural Separation",
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