--- res: bibo_abstract: - We present FlexMolds, a novel computational approach to automatically design flexible, reusable molds that, once 3D printed, allow us to physically fabricate, by means of liquid casting, multiple copies of complex shapes with rich surface details and complex topology. The approach to design such flexible molds is based on a greedy bottom-up search of possible cuts over an object, evaluating for each possible cut the feasibility of the resulting mold. We use a dynamic simulation approach to evaluate candidate molds, providing a heuristic to generate forces that are able to open, detach, and remove a complex mold from the object it surrounds. We have tested the approach with a number of objects with nontrivial shapes and topologies.@eng bibo_authorlist: - foaf_Person: foaf_givenName: Luigi foaf_name: Malomo, Luigi foaf_surname: Malomo - foaf_Person: foaf_givenName: Nico foaf_name: Pietroni, Nico foaf_surname: Pietroni - foaf_Person: foaf_givenName: Bernd foaf_name: Bickel, Bernd foaf_surname: Bickel foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=49876194-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 orcid: 0000-0001-6511-9385 - foaf_Person: foaf_givenName: Paolo foaf_name: Cignoni, Paolo foaf_surname: Cignoni bibo_doi: 10.1145/2980179.2982397 bibo_issue: '6' bibo_volume: 35 dct_date: 2016^xs_gYear dct_language: eng dct_publisher: ACM@ dct_title: 'FlexMolds: Automatic design of flexible shells for molding@' ...