MatAIRials: Isotropic Inflatable Metamaterials for Freeform Surface Design

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dc.contributor.authorHe, Siyuanen_US
dc.contributor.authorWu, Meng-Janen_US
dc.contributor.authorLebée, Arthuren_US
dc.contributor.authorSkouras, Mélinaen_US
dc.contributor.editorAttene, Marcoen_US
dc.contributor.editorSellán, Silviaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-20T07:39:36Z
dc.date.available2025-06-20T07:39:36Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractInflatable pads, such as those used as mattresses or protective equipment, are structures made of two planar membranes sealed according to periodic patterns, typically parallel lines or dots. In this work, we propose to treat these inflatables as metamaterials. By considering novel sealing patterns with 6-fold symmetry, we are able to generate a family of inflatable materials whose macroscale contraction is isotropic and can be modulated by controlling the parameters of the seals. We leverage this property of our inflatable materials family to propose a simple and effective algorithm based on conformal mapping that allows us to design the layout of inflatable structures that can be fabricated flat and whose inflated shapes approximate those of given target freeform surfaces.en_US
dc.description.number5
dc.description.sectionheadersFabrication
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume44
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.70190
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages13 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.70190
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.1111/cgf70190
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International License
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectCCS Concepts: Computing methodologies->Modeling and simulation; Shape modeling
dc.subjectComputing methodologies
dc.subjectModeling and simulation
dc.subjectShape modeling
dc.titleMatAIRials: Isotropic Inflatable Metamaterials for Freeform Surface Designen_US
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