Mark Pauly

Last chance to vote!
www.woodbee.ch/will-bee/pri...

Today, we will present our project BamX at the WILL BEE competition at the Casino Montbenon in Lausanne. Inscriptions for the event here: www.woodbee.ch/will-bee/fin...

More info on the project: bamx.epfl.ch

Please share and vote!
Our latest BamX project in the city of Lausanne has been nominated for a people choice award in the WILL BEE competition. You can cast your vote here: www.woodbee.ch/en/willbee/t...

More info on the project: bamx.epfl.ch

#sustainability #design #research

Join us at AAG this November in Boston for a workshop on elastic gridshells!

Together with @alisonmartin57.bsky.social, Seiichi Suzuki, and Yuanpeng Liu, we will study new typologies of gridshells composed of discrete, reusable elements.

More info on the workshop: www.aag2025.com/workshop-2

Quite a crowd yesterday at the award ceremony at the ACM SIGGRAPH conference in Vancouver. On stage Michele Vidulis and Quentin Becker receiving the recognition for our C-Tubes paper that they developed together with Klara Mundilova and Florin Isvoranu.
More info on the paper: go.epfl.ch/c-tubes

When research has fringe benefits. My wife now proudly wears the first-ever smooth-rolling Morton's knot as a gold earring!

Work by Max Brodeur, Michele Vidulis, Liliane-Joy Dandy

More into: go.epfl.ch/smooth_rolli...

Max Brodeur just presented our paper on smooth rolling knots at the Bridges Conference on Mathematics and the Arts.

Max worked on this topic during his semester project together with Michele Vidulis and Liliane-Joy Dandy.

More info here: go.epfl.ch/smooth_rolli...

You can still apply!
I'm happy to teach and participate in an upcoming workshop on inflatable structures at TU Vienna from Nov 24-28, 2025
More info here: gcd.tuwien.ac.at/gcd25-workshop

Could be worse. Morning work commute to EPFL...

10 years ago, we installed our caustic mirror plates at EPFL.
This was the beginning of the Rayform adventure with Romain Testuz and Yuliy Schwartzburg and what a ride it has been!

For more exciting projects using our technology, visit:
rayform.ch

Our new ACM SIGGRAPH paper has received the Best Paper honorable mention, placing it among the top 5% of papers in an already very selective program.

C-Tubes: Design and Optimization of Tubular Structures Composed of Developable Strips

More info on the project: go.epfl.ch/c-tubes

Our most recent BamX installation was featured on Swiss TV:
www.rts.ch/play/tv/12h4...

Info: bamx.epfl.ch

BamX Saugettes is a pioneering urban greening initiative commissioned by the City of Lausanne to introduce vegetation into the dense, concrete-dominated environment of Place de Saugettes.

New SIGGRAPH paper: C-Tubes: Design and Optimization of Tubular Structures Composed of Developable Strips

More info at: go.epfl.ch/c-tubes

The elusive Swiss Mountain Ginger Goat, finally spotted in my kitchen!

Inverse Geometric Locomotion Supplemental Video Acknowledgements The rattlesnake mesh is courtesy of DigitalLife3D at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the robot snake mesh is courtesy of the MiniRo Lab at the University ...

Discovering optimal articulations of deforming shapes for locomotion can help understand the different strategies organisms have developed to move around in the natural world. Joint work with Quentin Becker and Oliver Gross to be presented at ACM SIGGRAPH this summer.

More info: go.epfl.ch/igl

Our computational framework for Inverse Geometric Locomotion finds suitable deformations of an elastic disk so that it swims forward in a dissipative medium. By modulating stiffness, we can recover the styles of locomotion observed, from example, in stingrays.

Inverse Geometric Locomotion allows discovering optimal articulations for robots in dissipative media. The 4-triangle robot "learns" how to flap its wings to move forward or to rotate. The snake-like robot automatically adapts its articulation when a joint is broken.

More info: go.epfl.ch/igl

Here is something new: Inverse Geometric Locomotion is our latest paper to be published at ACM SIGGRAPH. Led by Quentin Becker and Oliver Gross, this project studies how we can find deformations of a shape such that these body changes lead to a desired motion. Fun stuff!

More info: go.epfl.ch/igl

Samara Ren received the Eurographics PhD Award at the opening ceremony of the main Eurographics conference in London yesterday. Congratulations!!

Samara has established her research group at ISTA working on topics in Geometric Computing and Digital Fabrication: ista.ac.at/en/research/...

The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships are a great opportunity to secure funding for the next stage of your academic career:

marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...

In case you are interested to join my lab as a post-doc, please contact me.

Please share widely:
The EPFL Geometry Computing Laboratory is launching its third call for an Artist / Designer Residency for the fall of 2025!
More information on how to apply here:
www.epfl.ch/labs/gcm/ope...

#design #art #residency #research

Please share widely: The Symposium on Advances in Architectural Geometry (AAG) will be hosted at MIT in Boston this year from Nov. 16-19!
More information: www.aag2025.com

The conference will be back-to-back with the Symposium on Computational Fabrication (scf.acm.org/2025/)

Truth Arrives in Slanted Beams - New art installation by Sarah Meyohas in collaboration with Rayform featuring six caustic mirrors currently featured at the Desert X 2025 Exhibition.

More info: www.epfl.ch/labs/gcm/tru...

I'll give a keynote talk at the Rhino User Meeting in Basel on March 28th. You can sign up at events.mcneel.eu/rhino-user-m...

Quick preview of the new exhibition video of Aetherocohedron,
a kinetic sculpture exploring duality, synergy and coherence, designed and fabricated at EPFL in collaboration with Josua Putzke.

More info and the full video here:
www.epfl.ch/labs/gcm/art...

#art #design #research #kinetic #geometry

Congratulations, Dr. Quentin Becker! @qbecky.bsky.social
Quentin successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at EPFL entitled "Computational Design of Deployable Gridshells with Curved Elastic Beams"
The core of his thesis research is nicely illustrated on his head!

Happy to share that former GCM PhD student Samara Ren has been awarded the highly selective EPFL Doctoral Program Thesis Distinction for her thesis on Computational Inverse Design of Shape Morphing Structures. Congratulations!
More info on her research work here: infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/pub...

This is a great program and an excellent opportunity for students to do research with the top expert in the field!

Quentin Becker (@qbecky.bsky.social ) just presented our work (with Uday Kusupati and Seiichi Suzuki) on the Computational Design of a Kit of Parts for Bending-Active Structures at SIGGRAPH Asia in Tokyo!

More info at: go.epfl.ch/kop

Liliane-Joy Dandy on the big stage at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia in Tokyo! n her excellent talk she introduced her project with Michele Vidulis and Samara Ren entitled: Tencers: Tension-Constrained Elastic Rods.

More info at: go.epfl.ch/tencers

Excited to present our work on "Computational Design of a Kit of Parts for Bending-Active Structures" at SIGGRAPH Asia 2024! A joint work with @udaykusupati.bsky.social, Seiichi Suzuki, @markpauly.bsky.social.

See you tomorrow at 10:45 in Hall B5 (1) to learn more about these flying pieces!