Title :
Design of Pop-Up Cards Based on Weighted Straight Skeletons
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Adv. Math. Sci., Meiji Univ., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
We investigated the use of weighted straight skeletons in the computer-aided creation of pop-up cards. A pop-up card is a sheet of paper that can be folded to a flat plane but, when opened, produces a meaningful three-dimensional structure. Weighted straight skeletons are a special type of Voronoi diagrams, and they are closely related to the foldability of a sheet of paper along specified lines. We characterize the weights that make a paper foldable and apply them to an interactive system for the design of pop-up cards.
Keywords :
CAD; computational geometry; Voronoi diagrams; computer-aided design; flat plane; interactive system; pop-up card design; three-dimensional structure; weighted straight skeletons; computer aided design; paper crafting; pop-up structure; straight skeleton;
Conference_Titel :
Voronoi Diagrams in Science and Engineering (ISVD), 2013 10th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
St Petersburg
DOI :
10.1109/ISVD.2013.9
