by Convergence Design Lab Admin | May 5, 2016 | 2016, Fabrication, Karthik Ramani, Luis Paredes, Recent Publications, TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED & EMBODIED INTERFACES, Wei Gao, Yunbo Zhang
Computer-aided design of flat patterns allows designers to prototype foldable 3D objects made of heterogeneous sheets of material. We found origami designs are often characterized by pre-synthesized patterns and...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Mar 14, 2016 | 2016, Fabrication, Karthik Ramani, TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED & EMBODIED INTERFACES, Yunbo Zhang
A flattenable mesh surface is a polygonal mesh surface that can be unfolded into a planar patch without stretching any polygon. This paper presents a new method for computing a slightly stretched flattenable mesh surface M from a piecewise-linear surface patch P∈R 3,...
by wei | Nov 5, 2015 | 2015, Fabrication, Featured Publications, HUMAN SHAPE INTERACTION, Shape Understanding, TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED & EMBODIED INTERFACES, Wei Gao, Yunbo Zhang
In recent years, 3D printing has gained significant attention from the maker community, academia, and industry to support low-cost and iterative prototyping of designs. Current unidirectional extrusion systems require printing sacrificial material to support printed...
by wei | May 19, 2015 | 2015, DESIGN METHOD, Design Representation, Devarajan Ramanujan, Fabrication, Karthik Ramani, TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED & EMBODIED INTERFACES, Wei Gao, Yunbo Zhang
Additive manufacturing (AM) is poised to bring about a revolution in the way products are designed, manufactured, and distributed to end users. This technology has gained significant academic as well as industry interest due to its ability to create complex geometries...
by wei | Aug 22, 2014 | 2013, DESIGN METHOD, Design Representation, Fabrication, Publications, TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED & EMBODIED INTERFACES, Wei Gao
Abstract: As an ancient paper craft originating from Japan, origami has been naturally embedded and contextualized in a variety of applications in the fields of mathematics, engineering, food packaging, and biological design. The computational and manufacturing...
by wei | Jun 20, 2014 | 2014, DESIGN METHOD, Design Representation, Fabrication, Karthik Ramani, Ke Huo, Publications, TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED & EMBODIED INTERFACES, Wei Gao
Origami affords the creation of diverse 3D objects through explicit folding processes from 2D sheets of material. Originally as a paper craft from 17th century AD, origami designs reveal the rudimentary characteristics of sheet folding: it is lightweight, inexpensive,...
