Design and Fabrication of Flexible Rod Meshes

摘要

We present a computational tool for fabrication-oriented design ofrnflexible rod meshes. Given a deformable surface and a set of deformedrnposes as input, our method automatically computes a printablernrod mesh that, once manufactured, closely matches the inputrnposes under the same boundary conditions. The core of our methodrnis formed by an optimization scheme that adjusts the cross-sectionalrnprofiles of the rods and their rest centerline in order to best approximaternthe target deformations. This approach allows us to locallyrncontrol the bending and stretching resistance of the surface with arnsingle material, yielding high design flexibility and low fabricationrncost.