Matthew, very cool printer developments. I manually did something similar with laser cutting rigid surfaces and simultaneously affixing those to very wide 'tape' back in 2009/10, creating essentially what you see in 2:31 in the video (while working under Erik Demaine), and then replicating that in 2015 or so using a fancy 3d printer that could print both rigid and flexible regions (with Andy Lee). But this is far more exciting and generalizable—I especially like the idea of affixing such rigid surfaces to cloth via a printer and the results are stunning.
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 3:49 PM Matthew Gardiner <m...@airstrip.com.au> wrote: > > > Kate Honeyman <wrac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Does anyone know what if any relationship exists between origami and 3D > > printing Kate > > Toot... I wrote my PhD thesis and published a paper about a process called > Fold Printing. It’s pretty amazing. > > There’s a bunch of links on this page. > > https://matthewgardiner.net/#research > > This video gives an overview of the research project that found some of > these ideas: > https://vimeo.com/305345706 > > Also other researchers, engineers etc, the good folks at BYU, Robert Lang > and a few Japanese researchers have published papers that include origami > and 3D printing. > > So, yes there’s some active research with origami and 3D printing. > > HTH > > Matthew > > >
