• DocumentCode
    3132393
  • Title

    Design of Pop-Up Cards Based on Weighted Straight Skeletons

  • Author

    Sugihara, K.

  • Author_Institution
    Grad. Sch. of Adv. Math. Sci., Meiji Univ., Tokyo, Japan
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    8-10 July 2013
  • Firstpage
    23
  • Lastpage
    28
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Voronoi Diagrams in Science and Engineering (ISVD), 2013 10th International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    St Petersburg
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISVD.2013.9
  • Filename
    6605974