Dynablock: Dynamic 3D printing for instant and reconstructable shape formation

Ryo Suzuki; Junichi Yamaoka; Daniel Leithinger; Tom Yeh; Mark D. Gross; Yoshihiro Kawahara; Yasuaki Kakehi

doi:10.1145/3242587.3242659

Dynablock: Dynamic 3D printing for instant and reconstructable shape formation

Ryo Suzuki, Junichi Yamaoka, Daniel Leithinger, Tom Yeh, Mark D. Gross, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Yasuaki Kakehi

Department of Psychology

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Abstract

This paper introduces Dynamic 3D Printing, a fast and reconstructable shape formation system. Dynamic 3D Printing assembles an arbitrary three-dimensional shape from a large number of small physical elements. It can also disassemble the shape back to elements and reconstruct a new shape. Dynamic 3D Printing combines the capabilities of 3D printers and shape displays: Like conventional 3D printing, it can generate arbitrary and graspable three-dimensional shapes, while allowing shapes to be rapidly formed and reformed as in a shape display. To demonstrate the idea, we describe the design and implementation of Dynablock, a working prototype of a dynamic 3D printer. Dynablock can form a three-dimensional shape in seconds by assembling 3,000 9 mm blocks, leveraging a 24 x 16 pin-based shape display as a parallel assembler. Dynamic 3D printing is a step toward achieving our long term vision in which 3D printing becomes an interactive medium, rather than the means for fabrication that it is today. In this paper we explore possibilities for this vision by illustrating application scenarios that are difficult to achieve with conventional 3D printing or shape display systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UIST 2018 - Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	99-111
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450359481
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3242587.3242659
State	Published - 11 Oct 2018
Event	31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2018 - Berlin, Germany Duration: 14 Oct 2018 → 17 Oct 2018

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Name	UIST 2018 - Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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Conference	31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2018
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Berlin
Period	14/10/18 → 17/10/18

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank Alexa Siu for her advice on the pin-based shape display. We also thank Shin Hanagata, Ryosuke Nakayama, Naomichi Fujiuchi, Natsuki Katayama, Shohei Aoki, and Kunro Hino for their help on building blocks. This research was supported by the JST ERATO Grant Number JPMJER1501, NSF CAREER award IIS 1453771, and the Nakajima Foundation.

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Keywords

Digital materials
Dynamic 3d printing
Shape displays

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Suzuki, R., Yamaoka, J., Leithinger, D., Yeh, T., Gross, M. D., Kawahara, Y., & Kakehi, Y. (2018). Dynablock: Dynamic 3D printing for instant and reconstructable shape formation. In UIST 2018 - Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (pp. 99-111). (UIST 2018 - Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3242587.3242659

Suzuki, Ryo ; Yamaoka, Junichi ; Leithinger, Daniel et al. / Dynablock : Dynamic 3D printing for instant and reconstructable shape formation. UIST 2018 - Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2018. pp. 99-111 (UIST 2018 - Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology).

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Suzuki R, Yamaoka J, Leithinger D, Yeh T, Gross MD, Kawahara Y et al. Dynablock: Dynamic 3D printing for instant and reconstructable shape formation. In UIST 2018 - Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2018. p. 99-111. (UIST 2018 - Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology). doi: 10.1145/3242587.3242659

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