Popup: Automatic Paper Architectures from 3D Models

Paper architectures are 3D paper buildings created by folding and cutting. The creation process of paper architecture is often labor intensive and highly skill-demanding, even with the aid of existing computer-aided design tools. We propose an automatic algorithm for generating paper architectures given a user-specified 3D model. The algorithm is grounded on geometric formulation of planar layout for paper architectures that can be popped-up in a rigid and stable manner, and sufficient conditions for a 3D surface to be popped up from such a planar layout. Based on these conditions, our algorithm computes a class of paper architectures containing two sets of parallel patches that approximate the input geometry while guaranteed to be physically realizable. The method is demonstrated on a number of architectural examples, and physically engineered results are presented.

Our website: http://cg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/

Paper Architectures by Artist Ingrid Siliakus: http://ingrid-siliakus.exto.org/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• SIGGRAPH 2010
• Paper Architectures
• Xian-yin Li
• Shi-Min Hu
• educational
• vlog

[chengmingvictor]

@ProLen The software for making these are avilable in the author's homepage. cg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/people/~­xianying/

[chengmingvictor]

@MiharuRokujo98

 The software for making these are avilable in the author's homepage.

[ProLen]

Is there any software for download?

[MiharuRokujo98]

how do you make these? is there a template to make them???/