Wire mesh design
- 27 July 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM Transactions on Graphics
- Vol. 33 (4), 1-12
- https://doi.org/10.1145/2601097.2601106
Abstract
We present a computational approach for designing wire meshes, i.e., freeform surfaces composed of woven wires arranged in a regular grid. To facilitate shape exploration, we map material properties of wire meshes to the geometric model of Chebyshev nets. This abstraction is exploited to build an efficient optimization scheme. While the theory of Chebyshev nets suggests a highly constrained design space, we show that allowing controlled deviations from the underlying surface provides a rich shape space for design exploration. Our algorithm balances globally coupled material constraints with aesthetic and geometric design objectives that can be specified by the user in an interactive design session. In addition to sculptural art, wire meshes represent an innovative medium for industrial applications including composite materials and architectural façades. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach using a variety of digital and physical prototypes with a level of shape complexity unobtainable using previous methods.Keywords
Funding Information
- Autodesk, Inc.
- Side Effects
- Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (IIS-1319483, CMMI-1331499, IIS-1217904, IIS-1117257, CMMI-1129917, IIS-0916129)
- Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS-1319483, CMMI-1331499, IIS-1217904, IIS-1117257, CMMI-1129917, IIS-0916129)
- Intel Corporation
- United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Swiss National Science Foundation (200021 137626)
- Seventh Framework Programme (257453)
- Niedersachsen-Israel
- The Walt Disney Company
- Nvidia
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