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Mark Pauly

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Professor at EPFL, Director of the Geometric Computing Laboratory https://www.epfl.ch/labs/gcm/

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Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · Nov 23

I'll be using this channel mostly to announce news from the EPFL Geometric Computing Laboratory (www.epfl.ch/labs/gcm/).
Here is a teaser of some of our recent research.

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Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · 4d

Getting ready for our workshop at the Advances in Architectural Geometry 2025 Conference @MIT (AAG2025)!
Many fun explorations and discoveries with Alison Martin, Seiichi Suzuki, and Filip Goc that we are excited to share and deepen with the workshop participants. Register at: www.aag2025.com

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Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · 21d

Last chance to vote!
www.woodbee.ch/will-bee/pri...

Today, we will present our project BamX at the WILL BEE competition at the Casino Montbenon in Lausanne. Inscriptions for the event here: www.woodbee.ch/will-bee/fin...

More info on the project: bamx.epfl.ch

Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · 28d

Please share and vote!
Our latest BamX project in the city of Lausanne has been nominated for a people choice award in the WILL BEE competition. You can cast your vote here: www.woodbee.ch/en/willbee/t...

More info on the project: bamx.epfl.ch

#sustainability #design #research

Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · Aug 20

Join us at AAG this November in Boston for a workshop on elastic gridshells!

Together with @alisonmartin57.bsky.social, Seiichi Suzuki, and Yuanpeng Liu, we will study new typologies of gridshells composed of discrete, reusable elements.

More info on the workshop: www.aag2025.com/workshop-2

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Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · Aug 12

Quite a crowd yesterday at the award ceremony at the ACM SIGGRAPH conference in Vancouver. On stage Michele Vidulis and Quentin Becker receiving the recognition for our C-Tubes paper that they developed together with Klara Mundilova and Florin Isvoranu.
More info on the paper: go.epfl.ch/c-tubes

Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · Jul 19

When research has fringe benefits. My wife now proudly wears the first-ever smooth-rolling Morton's knot as a gold earring!

Work by Max Brodeur, Michele Vidulis, Liliane-Joy Dandy

More into: go.epfl.ch/smooth_rolli...

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Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · Jul 16

Max Brodeur just presented our paper on smooth rolling knots at the Bridges Conference on Mathematics and the Arts.

Max worked on this topic during his semester project together with Michele Vidulis and Liliane-Joy Dandy.

More info here: go.epfl.ch/smooth_rolli...

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Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · Jul 15

You can still apply!
I'm happy to teach and participate in an upcoming workshop on inflatable structures at TU Vienna from Nov 24-28, 2025
More info here: gcd.tuwien.ac.at/gcd25-workshop

Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · Jul 2

Could be worse. Morning work commute to EPFL...

Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · Jun 30

10 years ago, we installed our caustic mirror plates at EPFL.
This was the beginning of the Rayform adventure with Romain Testuz and Yuliy Schwartzburg and what a ride it has been!

For more exciting projects using our technology, visit:
rayform.ch

Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · Jun 16

Our new ACM SIGGRAPH paper has received the Best Paper honorable mention, placing it among the top 5% of papers in an already very selective program.

C-Tubes: Design and Optimization of Tubular Structures Composed of Developable Strips

More info on the project: go.epfl.ch/c-tubes

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Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · Jun 16

Our most recent BamX installation was featured on Swiss TV:
www.rts.ch/play/tv/12h4...

Info: bamx.epfl.ch

BamX Saugettes is a pioneering urban greening initiative commissioned by the City of Lausanne to introduce vegetation into the dense, concrete-dominated environment of Place de Saugettes.

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Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · May 21

New SIGGRAPH paper: C-Tubes: Design and Optimization of Tubular Structures Composed of Developable Strips

More info at: go.epfl.ch/c-tubes

Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · May 19

The elusive Swiss Mountain Ginger Goat, finally spotted in my kitchen!

Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · May 16

Discovering optimal articulations of deforming shapes for locomotion can help understand the different strategies organisms have developed to move around in the natural world. Joint work with Quentin Becker and Oliver Gross to be presented at ACM SIGGRAPH this summer.

More info: go.epfl.ch/igl

Inverse Geometric Locomotion

Supplemental Video Acknowledgements The rattlesnake mesh is courtesy of DigitalLife3D at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the robot snake mesh is courtesy of the MiniRo Lab at the University ...

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Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · May 16

Our computational framework for Inverse Geometric Locomotion finds suitable deformations of an elastic disk so that it swims forward in a dissipative medium. By modulating stiffness, we can recover the styles of locomotion observed, from example, in stingrays.

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Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · May 16

Inverse Geometric Locomotion allows discovering optimal articulations for robots in dissipative media. The 4-triangle robot "learns" how to flap its wings to move forward or to rotate. The snake-like robot automatically adapts its articulation when a joint is broken.

More info: go.epfl.ch/igl

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Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · May 15

Here is something new: Inverse Geometric Locomotion is our latest paper to be published at ACM SIGGRAPH. Led by Quentin Becker and Oliver Gross, this project studies how we can find deformations of a shape such that these body changes lead to a desired motion. Fun stuff!

More info: go.epfl.ch/igl

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Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · May 13

Samara Ren received the Eurographics PhD Award at the opening ceremony of the main Eurographics conference in London yesterday. Congratulations!!

Samara has established her research group at ISTA working on topics in Geometric Computing and Digital Fabrication: ista.ac.at/en/research/...

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Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · May 9

The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships are a great opportunity to secure funding for the next stage of your academic career:

marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...

In case you are interested to join my lab as a post-doc, please contact me.

Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · May 2

Please share widely:
The EPFL Geometry Computing Laboratory is launching its third call for an Artist / Designer Residency for the fall of 2025!
More information on how to apply here:
www.epfl.ch/labs/gcm/ope...

#design #art #residency #research

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Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · Mar 15

Please share widely: The Symposium on Advances in Architectural Geometry (AAG) will be hosted at MIT in Boston this year from Nov. 16-19!
More information: www.aag2025.com

The conference will be back-to-back with the Symposium on Computational Fabrication (scf.acm.org/2025/)

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Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · Mar 13

Truth Arrives in Slanted Beams - New art installation by Sarah Meyohas in collaboration with Rayform featuring six caustic mirrors currently featured at the Desert X 2025 Exhibition.

More info: www.epfl.ch/labs/gcm/tru...

Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · Feb 28

I'll give a keynote talk at the Rhino User Meeting in Basel on March 28th. You can sign up at events.mcneel.eu/rhino-user-m...

Mark Pauly @markpauly.bsky.social · Feb 17

Quick preview of the new exhibition video of Aetherocohedron,
a kinetic sculpture exploring duality, synergy and coherence, designed and fabricated at EPFL in collaboration with Josua Putzke.

More info and the full video here:
www.epfl.ch/labs/gcm/art...

#art #design #research #kinetic #geometry

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