--- res: bibo_abstract: - We present a computational method for designing wire sculptures consisting of interlocking wires. Our method allows the computation of aesthetically pleasing structures that are structurally stable, efficiently fabricatable with a 2D wire bending machine, and assemblable without the need of additional connectors. Starting from a set of planar contours provided by the user, our method automatically tests for the feasibility of a design, determines a discrete ordering of wires at intersection points, and optimizes for the rest shape of the individual wires to maximize structural stability under frictional contact. In addition to their application to art, wire sculptures present an extremely efficient and fast alternative for low-fidelity rapid prototyping because manufacturing time and required material linearly scales with the physical size of objects. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on a varied set of examples, all of which we fabricated.@eng bibo_authorlist: - foaf_Person: foaf_givenName: Eder foaf_name: Miguel Villalba, Eder foaf_surname: Miguel Villalba foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=3FB91342-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 - foaf_Person: foaf_givenName: Mathias foaf_name: Lepoutre, Mathias foaf_surname: Lepoutre - 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 bibo_doi: 10.1145/2897824.2925978 bibo_issue: '4' bibo_volume: 35 dct_date: 2016^xs_gYear dct_language: eng dct_publisher: ACM@ dct_title: Computational design of stable planar-rod structures@ ...