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Beyond Developable: Computational Design and Fabrication with Auxetic Materials

Konakovic, Mina
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Crane, Keenan
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Deng, Bailin  
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2016
ACM Transactions On Graphics
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference

We present a computational method for interactive 3D design and rationalization of surfaces via auxetic materials, i.e., flat flexible material that can stretch uniformly up to a certain extent. A key motivation for studying such material is that one can approximate doubly-curved surfaces (such as the sphere) using only flat pieces, making it attractive for fabrication. We physically realize surfaces by introducing cuts into approximately inextensible material such as sheet metal, plastic, or leather. The cutting pattern is modeled as a regular triangular linkage that yields hexagonal openings of spatially-varying radius when stretched. In the same way that isometry is fundamental to modeling developable surfaces, we leverage conformal geometry to understand auxetic design. In particular, we compute a global conformal map with bounded scale factor to initialize an otherwise intractable non-linear optimization. We demonstrate that this global approach can handle non-trivial topology and non-local dependencies inherent in auxetic material. Design studies and physical prototypes are used to illustrate a wide range of possible applications.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1145/2897824.2925944
Web of Science ID

WOS:000380112400059

Author(s)
Konakovic, Mina
Crane, Keenan
Deng, Bailin  
Bouaziz, Sofien  
Piker, Daniel
Pauly, Mark  
Date Issued

2016

Publisher

Assoc Computing Machinery

Publisher place

New York

Published in
ACM Transactions On Graphics
Total of pages

11

Volume

35

Issue

4

Start page

89

Subjects

digital fabrication

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computational design

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global optimization

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differential geometry

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conformal mapping

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SIGGRAPH Talk Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFkD45NUIzQ
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REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
GCM  
Event name
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference
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January 24, 2017
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