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Abstract | ||
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ABSTRACTWe develop a novel method printing complex self-folding geometries. We demonstrated that with a desktop fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printer, off-the-shelf printing filaments and a design editor, we can print flat thermoplastic composites and trigger them to self-fold into 3D with arbitrary bending angles. This is a suitable technique, called Thermorph, to prototype hollow and foldable 3D shapes without losing key features. We describe a new curved folding origami design algorithm, compiling given arbitrary 3D models to 2D unfolded models in G-Code for FDM printers. To demonstrate the Thermorph platform, we designed and printed complex self-folding geometries (up to 70 faces), including 15 self-curved geometric primitives and 4 self-curved applications, such as chairs, the simplified Stanford Bunny and flowers. Compared to the standard 3D printing, our method saves up to 60% - 87% of the printing time for all shapes chosen. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2018 | 10.1145/3173574.3173834 | Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
3D printing, 4D printing, shape memory polymer, thermoplastic, self-folding, shape changing, computational geometry, computational fabrication | Shape-memory polymer,Stanford bunny,Computer graphics (images),Computer science,Computational geometry,Geometric primitive,Bending,Human–computer interaction,Fused deposition modeling,3D printing,Thermoplastic | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
3 | 0.37 | 23 |
Authors | ||
12 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Byoungkwon An | 1 | 46 | 6.07 |
| Ye Tao | 2 | 30 | 11.69 |
| Jianzhe Gu | 3 | 10 | 5.65 |
| Tingyu Cheng | 4 | 9 | 2.59 |
| Xiang 'Anthony' Chen | 5 | 470 | 23.20 |
| Xiaoxiao Zhang | 6 | 8 | 5.97 |
| wei zhao | 7 | 71 | 28.69 |
| Youngwook Do | 8 | 12 | 3.98 |
| Shigeo Takahashi | 9 | 755 | 49.22 |
| Hsiang-Yun Wu | 10 | 98 | 13.83 |
| Teng Zhang | 11 | 14 | 1.19 |
| Lining Yao | 12 | 251 | 31.54 |