Ondulé

Quick Info

Project Date April 5, 2017 - Oct. 20, 2019
Keywords: fabrication, Design tool, kinetic fabrication

News

Liang He Passes General Exam

Dec 18, 2020 | Jon

Announcing Liang He, PhD Candidate! Liang He successfully passed his General Exam entitled Interactive Design Tools and Techniques for Augmented 3D Printable Behaviors. His talk and accompanying slides were beautifully designed and thoughtfully captured his vision for enabling designers and DIY makers to more easily prototype and fabricate interactive 3D printable forms. Congrats Liang!

Liang He Accepted into UIST2020 Doctoral Symposium

Jul 29, 2020 | Jon

PhD student Liang He was just accepted into the UIST2020 Doctoral Symposium for his dissertation work entitled "Designing, Controlling, and Fabricating On-Demand Structures." Congrats Liang!

Congrats Liang on DUB DC Acceptance

May 15, 2020 | Jon

Congratulations to Liang on being accepted to the DUB DC!

About

Ondulé Applications

This is the set of example applications created with Ondulé design tool.

We present Ondulé—an interactive design tool that allows novices to create parameterizable deformation behaviors in 3D-printable models using helical springs and embedded joints. Informed by spring theory and our empirical mechanical experiments, we introduce spring and joint based design techniques that support a range of parameterizable deformation behaviors, including compress, extend, twist, bend, and various combinations. To enable users to design and add these deformations to their models, we introduce a custom design tool for Rhino. Here, users can convert selected geometries into springs, customize spring stiffness, and parameterize their design with mechanical constraints for desired behaviors. To demonstrate the feasibility of our approach and the breadth of new designs that it enables, we showcase a set of example 3D-printed applications from launching rocket toys to tangible storytelling props. We conclude with a discussion of key challenges and open research questions.