TY - GEN
T1 - Dynablock
T2 - 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2018
AU - Suzuki, Ryo
AU - Yamaoka, Junichi
AU - Leithinger, Daniel
AU - Yeh, Tom
AU - Gross, Mark D.
AU - Kawahara, Yoshihiro
AU - Kakehi, Yasuaki
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Alexa Siu for her advice on the pin-based shape display. We also thank Shin Hanagata, Ryosuke Nakayama, Naomichi Fujiuchi, Natsuki Katayama, Shohei Aoki, and Kunro Hino for their help on building blocks. This research was supported by the JST ERATO Grant Number JPMJER1501, NSF CAREER award IIS 1453771, and the Nakajima Foundation.
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PY - 2018/10/11
Y1 - 2018/10/11
N2 - This paper introduces Dynamic 3D Printing, a fast and reconstructable shape formation system. Dynamic 3D Printing assembles an arbitrary three-dimensional shape from a large number of small physical elements. It can also disassemble the shape back to elements and reconstruct a new shape. Dynamic 3D Printing combines the capabilities of 3D printers and shape displays: Like conventional 3D printing, it can generate arbitrary and graspable three-dimensional shapes, while allowing shapes to be rapidly formed and reformed as in a shape display. To demonstrate the idea, we describe the design and implementation of Dynablock, a working prototype of a dynamic 3D printer. Dynablock can form a three-dimensional shape in seconds by assembling 3,000 9 mm blocks, leveraging a 24 x 16 pin-based shape display as a parallel assembler. Dynamic 3D printing is a step toward achieving our long term vision in which 3D printing becomes an interactive medium, rather than the means for fabrication that it is today. In this paper we explore possibilities for this vision by illustrating application scenarios that are difficult to achieve with conventional 3D printing or shape display systems.
AB - This paper introduces Dynamic 3D Printing, a fast and reconstructable shape formation system. Dynamic 3D Printing assembles an arbitrary three-dimensional shape from a large number of small physical elements. It can also disassemble the shape back to elements and reconstruct a new shape. Dynamic 3D Printing combines the capabilities of 3D printers and shape displays: Like conventional 3D printing, it can generate arbitrary and graspable three-dimensional shapes, while allowing shapes to be rapidly formed and reformed as in a shape display. To demonstrate the idea, we describe the design and implementation of Dynablock, a working prototype of a dynamic 3D printer. Dynablock can form a three-dimensional shape in seconds by assembling 3,000 9 mm blocks, leveraging a 24 x 16 pin-based shape display as a parallel assembler. Dynamic 3D printing is a step toward achieving our long term vision in which 3D printing becomes an interactive medium, rather than the means for fabrication that it is today. In this paper we explore possibilities for this vision by illustrating application scenarios that are difficult to achieve with conventional 3D printing or shape display systems.
KW - Digital materials
KW - Dynamic 3d printing
KW - Shape displays
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U2 - 10.1145/3242587.3242659
DO - 10.1145/3242587.3242659
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85056829873
T3 - UIST 2018 - Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
SP - 99
EP - 111
BT - UIST 2018 - Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 14 October 2018 through 17 October 2018
ER -