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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 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.
acknowledgement: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon
2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 645599.
alternative_title:
- ACM Transactions on Graphics
article_number: '86'
author:
- first_name: Eder
full_name: Miguel Villalba, Eder
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last_name: Miguel Villalba
- first_name: Mathias
full_name: Lepoutre, Mathias
last_name: Lepoutre
- first_name: Bernd
full_name: Bickel, Bernd
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last_name: Bickel
orcid: 0000-0001-6511-9385
citation:
ama: 'Miguel Villalba E, Lepoutre M, Bickel B. Computational design of stable planar-rod
structures. In: Vol 35. ACM; 2016. doi:10.1145/2897824.2925978'
apa: 'Miguel Villalba, E., Lepoutre, M., & Bickel, B. (2016). Computational
design of stable planar-rod structures (Vol. 35). Presented at the ACM SIGGRAPH,
Anaheim, CA, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2897824.2925978'
chicago: Miguel Villalba, Eder, Mathias Lepoutre, and Bernd Bickel. “Computational
Design of Stable Planar-Rod Structures,” Vol. 35. ACM, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1145/2897824.2925978.
ieee: E. Miguel Villalba, M. Lepoutre, and B. Bickel, “Computational design of stable
planar-rod structures,” presented at the ACM SIGGRAPH, Anaheim, CA, USA, 2016,
vol. 35, no. 4.
ista: Miguel Villalba E, Lepoutre M, Bickel B. 2016. Computational design of stable
planar-rod structures. ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 35, 86.
mla: Miguel Villalba, Eder, et al. Computational Design of Stable Planar-Rod
Structures. Vol. 35, no. 4, 86, ACM, 2016, doi:10.1145/2897824.2925978.
short: E. Miguel Villalba, M. Lepoutre, B. Bickel, in:, ACM, 2016.
conference:
end_date: 2016-07-28
location: Anaheim, CA, USA
name: ACM SIGGRAPH
start_date: 2016-07-24
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:51:36Z
date_published: 2016-07-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:50:10Z
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ddc:
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department:
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doi: 10.1145/2897824.2925978
ec_funded: 1
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call_identifier: H2020
grant_number: '645599'
name: Soft-bodied intelligence for Manipulation
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title: Computational design of stable planar-rod structures
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