Polychromatic sets and its application in simulating complex objects and systems

In recent years, polychromatic sets have emerged as a promising approach for simulation modeling. The theory, techniques and approaches of polychromatic sets can play an important role in product life-cycle simulation, product conceptual design, concurrent engineering, and virtual manufacturing for product modeling, process modeling, and process optimization. In this paper, the concept of polychromatic sets is introduced. After discussing the concept of polychromatic sets, the mathematical aspects of the theory and the relationship between the unified pigmentation and individual pigmentation is discussed. An application example is also given in the paper.