The paper presents a framework for exploring the space of uniformly deployable hinged kirigami structures, as a constrained embedding space of an arbitrary planar graph. The design space can be used for desired deployment properties, such as conformal behavior and fully-closed deployed configuration, and for inverse design.
The paper presents a computational framework for designing hinged kirigami patterns that can be optimized to approximate a target 3D surface upon deployment.
The paper introduces a method for utilizing an embroidery technique called smocking to realize freeform surfaces from a flat piece of fabric. By combining directional field computation and continuous planar graph optimization, our algorithm outputs a stitching pattern that generates an approximation of the target shape upon stitching.