Tomorrow begins the Structural Origami Meeting at EPFL!
This event brings together researchers, practitioners, and artists to study open problems in origami and related fields.
We have organized a public lectures series that you can join in person or online: structuralorigami.com/public-lectu...
Today opens the Geneva Lux festival and it features our latest BamX structure. Together with light artist Félix Michel, we created this immersive installation located in front of the cathedral in Geneva. Epic!
More info: genevalux.ch/en/works/202...
Please share: We are excited to organize this year's Structural Origami Gathering at EPFL with a series of public lectures on Feb 3rd!
Please join in person or online!
More info: structuralorigami.com/public-lectu...
We had a blast exploring geometry at the AAG workshop these last two days, building many flexible structures with intricate topologies and surprising transformability from simple flexible ribbon elements.
Thanks to @alisonmartin57.bsky.social , Seiichi Suzuki, Yuanpeng Liu, Hong-Bin Yang.
New Paper: Title: Topological generation of woven nodes for double-layered elastic gridshells built from deployable cylindrical components
Authors: Hong-Bin Yang, Seiichi Suzuki, Mark Pauly
To be presented next week at AAG: Link to pdf: infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/pub...
New Paper: CNets: An Interactive Design Framework for Cone-Nets
Authors: Klara Mundilova, Michele Vidulis, Quentin Becker, Florin Isvoranu, Mark Pauly
Will be presented next week at AAG. Link to pdf:
www.epfl.ch/labs/gcm/res...
New Paper: Double-Layered Elastic Gridshells with Locally Deployable Rotational-Surface Components
Authors: Yuanpeng Liu, Seiichi Suzuki, Florin Isvoranu, Mark Pauly
Will be presented next week at AAG. Link to pdf:
infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/pub...
Looking forward to traveling to Cambridge (US) this weekend for the Advances in Architectural Geometry Conference (AAG) and the Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF) at MIT. Hope to see you there!
www.aag2025.com
scf.acm.org/2025/
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Applications are now open for summer internships at EPFL: summer.epfl.ch
I'll be hosting students at the Geometric Computing Laboratory through this program.
Source Code now available for our ACM SIGGRAPH project
C-Tubes: Design and Optimization of Tubular Structures Composed of Developable Strips
Paper and code: go.epfl.ch/c-tubes
Authors: Michele Vidulis *, Klara Mundilova *, Quentin Becker *, Florin Isvoranu, Mark Pauly
*joint first authors
Getting ready for our workshop at the Advances in Architectural Geometry 2025 Conference @MIT (AAG2025)!
Many fun explorations and discoveries with Alison Martin, Seiichi Suzuki, and Filip Goc that we are excited to share and deepen with the workshop participants. Register at: www.aag2025.com
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
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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...
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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!
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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.
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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.
