New Paper: Double-Layered Elastic Gridshells with Locally Deployable Rotational-Surface Components

Authors: Yuanpeng Liu, Seiichi Suzuki, Florin Isvoranu, Mark Pauly

Will be presented next week at AAG. Link to pdf:
infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/pub...

Source Code now available for our ACM SIGGRAPH project
C-Tubes: Design and Optimization of Tubular Structures Composed of Developable Strips

Paper and code: go.epfl.ch/c-tubes

Authors: Michele Vidulis *, Klara Mundilova *, Quentin Becker *, Florin Isvoranu, Mark Pauly
*joint first authors

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

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

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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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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