CompFabSeminar

Season 2

Textiles

Jim McCann: Computational Fabrication is a Perfect Fit for Textiles

Mackenzie Leake: Designing Computational Tools for Modern Quilt Design

Shape Decomposition

Marco Livesu: Fabrication-Aware Decomposition

Thomas Alderighi: Shape Decomposition For Automatic Mold Design

Structured Materials

Sylvain Lefebvre: From textures to structures: old school computer graphics for advanced 3D printing

Thibault Tricard: Procedural noise patterns for additive manufacturing

Embedded Functionality

Alexandra Ion: Interactive structures: creating (meta)materials that move, walk, compute

Yiyue Luo: Digital Fabrication of Functional Textiles

Mechanism Design

Peng Song: Computational Design of Mechanisms

Yingjie Cheng: Path Generation Mechanism Modeling and Optimization

Color 3D Printing

Philipp Urban: The Future of Appearance 3D Printing

Tobias Rittig: Optimizing Appearance using Light Transport Simulation

Learning to CAD

Jiajun Wu: From Images to Shapes to CAD Models

Ben Jones: Learning Mechanical CAD: Representation Learning on Parametric Boundary Representations

Architected Matter

Kristina Shea: Explorations in 4D Printed, Tunable Structures and Machines

Tian (Tim) Chen: Some rational designs of transformable surfaces

Architectural Geometry

Nico Pietroni: ENGINEERING THE IMAGINATION: Computational design for Architecture

Caigui Jiang: Geometric Modeling from Flat Sheet Material

Computational Art

Xiaoming Fu: Geometry-driven Art Design

Kang Wu: Computational Mirror Cup and Saucer Art

3D Printing Hardware

Charlie Wang: Multi-Axis Additive Manufacturing: Next Generation of 3D Printing

Jochen Mueller: Design-Driven Hardware Innovation in 3D Printing

Season 1

Computational Architecture

Hélène Lombois-Burger: The Utmost Importance of Design in the Route to Market of Concrete 3D Printing: The Material Supplier View

Davide Pellis: New Classes of Quad Meshes for Freeform Architecture

Programming Languages

Karl Willis: Learning Programs for Fabricating the Physical World

Kevin Ellis: Learning to Use and Extend Languages for Visual Programs

Assembly-Based Fabrication

Chi-Wing Fu, Philip: Computation Assembly for Fabrication: Overview

Ziqi Wang: Computation Assembly for Fabrication: Shape Optimization

Perception And Fabrication

Piotr Didyk: Importance of Perception for Digital Fabrication

Michal Piovarci: Perception-Aware Computational Fabrication

Machine Learning

Faez Achmed: Design Synthesis from the Lens of Machine Learning

Mina Konaković Luković: Transforming Design and Fabrication with Computational Discovery

Porous Microstructures

Ligang Liu: Lightweight Structure Modeling and Optimization

Lin Lu: Porous Structure Modeling

Robotics

Roi Poranne: Shaping With Robots

Tao Du: Differentiable Simulation Methods for Robotic Agent Design

Textiles And Cloth

Steve Marschner: How Can Graphics Change Manufacturing?

Vidya Narayanan: 3D Machine Knitting

User-Driven Design

Nobuyuki Umetani: Design Exploration with Interactive Physics Simulation

Yuki Koyama: Human-in-the-Loop Design Optimization

Microstructures

Elissa Ross: Additive Manufacturing for Metamaterial Challenges in Industry

Jonàs Martínez: Metamaterials for Additive Manufacturing

Fabricating Interfaces

Jennifer Mankoff: Musings On Creation: By Whom; How; And What We Create

Michael Wessely: Fabricating Physical User Interfaces

Architectural Design

Kenneth Joseph Tracy: Dynamic Architectural Assemblies

Gene Ting-Chun Kao: Assembly-Aware Design of Architecture

About The Seminar

Mission statement: Showcase exciting research results, inspire and motivate new research, and create a regular recurring opportunity for the community to meet and exchange ideas.

Format: Weekly 1 hour live session, which will rotate through three different time zones (Asia, Europe, America). If possible, these sessions will be recorded and made available for the parts of the community that cannot join live.

Speakers: Each live session will start with a general 10-20min opening talk, given by an expert from industry or a field related to computational fabrication, such as robotics, computer graphics, mechanical engineering, material science, HCI, applied math, design, or architecture. The motivational talks could for example provide new perspectives, highlight open challenges, inform about state-of-the-art techniques, reflect a personal view on the state of the field, point out research opportunities, and/or provide a vision. The motivational talk is followed by a more technical deep-dive on a current topic given by a talented young researcher.