conference paper published yes Jesús Pérez author Bernhard Thomaszewski author Stelian Coros author Bernd Bickel author 49876194-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A870000-0001-6511-9385 José Canabal author Robert Sumner author Miguel Otaduy author BeBi department SIGGRAPH: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques We present a computational tool for fabrication-oriented design of flexible rod meshes. Given a deformable surface and a set of deformed poses as input, our method automatically computes a printable rod mesh that, once manufactured, closely matches the input poses under the same boundary conditions. The core of our method is formed by an optimization scheme that adjusts the cross-sectional profiles of the rods and their rest centerline in order to best approximate the target deformations. This approach allows us to locally control the bending and stretching resistance of the surface with a single material, yielding high design flexibility and low fabrication cost. ACM2015Los Angeles, CA, United States eng 00035878660010410.1145/2766998 344 Pérez, J., Thomaszewski, B., Coros, S., Bickel, B., Canabal, J., Sumner, R., &#38; Otaduy, M. (2015). Design and fabrication of flexible rod meshes (Vol. 34). Presented at the SIGGRAPH: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Los Angeles, CA, United States: ACM. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/2766998">https://doi.org/10.1145/2766998</a> J. Pérez, B. Thomaszewski, S. Coros, B. Bickel, J. Canabal, R. Sumner, M. Otaduy, in:, ACM, 2015. Pérez, Jesús, et al. <i>Design and Fabrication of Flexible Rod Meshes</i>. Vol. 34, no. 4, 138, ACM, 2015, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/2766998">10.1145/2766998</a>. Pérez J, Thomaszewski B, Coros S, et al. Design and fabrication of flexible rod meshes. In: Vol 34. ACM; 2015. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/2766998">10.1145/2766998</a> Pérez, Jesús, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Stelian Coros, Bernd Bickel, José Canabal, Robert Sumner, and Miguel Otaduy. “Design and Fabrication of Flexible Rod Meshes,” Vol. 34. ACM, 2015. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/2766998">https://doi.org/10.1145/2766998</a>. Pérez J, Thomaszewski B, Coros S, Bickel B, Canabal J, Sumner R, Otaduy M. 2015. Design and fabrication of flexible rod meshes. SIGGRAPH: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques vol. 34, 138. J. Pérez <i>et al.</i>, “Design and fabrication of flexible rod meshes,” presented at the SIGGRAPH: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 2015, vol. 34, no. 4. 16272018-12-11T11:53:07Z2025-09-23T08:24:55Z