Developable Metamaterials: Mass-fabricable Metamaterials by Laser-Cutting Elastic Structures

Project page

https://igl.ethz.ch/projects/developable-metamaterials/

Building the program(s)

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebugInfo
make

Running

• ./ruffles_editor: Launch the main ruffle editor
• ./ruffles_test_springiness: Test the relationship between stress (force) and strain (deformation)
• ./ruffles_debug_{strip,ruffle,optimization}: Debug programs to test individual components of the system during development

Publication

Madlaina Signer, Alexandra Ion, and Olga Sorkine-Hornung. 2021. Developable Metamaterials: Mass-fabricable Metamaterials by Laser-Cutting Elastic Structures. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 674, 1–13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445666