UNFOLDING-Texas A&M: Akleman, Kea, Wua, Kalantar, Borhani, Chen

Construction with Physical version of Quad-Edge Data Structures
Texas A&M, Fall 2015
Ergun Akleman + Shenyao Kea + You Wua + Negar Kalantar + Alireza Borhani + Jianer Chen
This video presents our current progress for realization of complex 3D surfaces and structures that are assembled from 2D planar shapes. The goal is to construct physical structures that can be raised and formed in 3-space using minimal amount of planar materials.
In this work, the team demonstrates that quad-edge mesh data structure can efficiently be used to construct large shapes. We have developed a system to unfold any polygonal mesh based on quad-edge structure. Using our system, any shape can be constructed by using laser-cut developable panels based on quad-edge mesh data structures. This approach is particularly suitable to construct complicated sculptural and architectural shapes from anisotropic materials that can only be bended in one direction.

[@eroc1944]

cool!

[@salihkurt9707]

You guys are great. Which program are you using? Pepakura?