Computational Design of Rubber Balloons
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2012
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The Eurographics Association and John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
Abstract
This paper presents an automatic process for fabrication-oriented design of custom-shaped rubber balloons. We cast computational balloon design as an inverse problem: given a target shape, we compute an optimal balloon that, when inflated, approximates the target as closely as possible. To solve this problem numerically, we propose a novel physics-driven shape optimization method, which combines physical simulation of inflatable elastic membranes with a dedicated constrained optimization algorithm. We validate our approach by fabricating balloons designed with our method and comparing their inflated shapes to the results predicted by simulation. An extensive set of manufactured sample balloons demonstrates the shape diversity that can be achieved by our method.
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@article{10.1111:j.1467-8659.2012.03064.x,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{Computational Design of Rubber Balloons}},
author = {Skouras, Mélina and Thomaszewski, Bernhard and Bickel, Bernd and Gross, Markus},
year = {2012},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association and John Wiley and Sons Ltd.},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03064.x}
}