Falling Into Place: Drop Assembly of Interlocking Puzzles

This paper explores a system for assembling structures by dropping block components into place. During and after assembly, the blocks are held together by geometric interlock, so that fasteners or mortar are only needed to bind the final block to one of its neighbors.

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3D virtual reconstruction and sound simulation of old musical instruments

This work addresses the 3D digital restoration of three ancient musical instruments that come from different periods and in different states of preservation. Their voices can now be heard thanks to as many multidisciplinary projects. Possible approaches to the simulation of the sounds that these instruments could generate are discussed in relation to different aims and contexts.

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PuzzleFlex: kinematic motion of chains with loose joints

This paper presents a method of computing free motions of a planar assembly of rigid bodies connected by loose joints. Potential applications include analysis of collections of modular robots, structural stability perturbation analysis, tolerance analysis for mechanical systems, and formation control of mobile robots.

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3D Virtual Reconstruction and Sound Simulation of an Ancient Roman Brass Musical Instrument

Best Paper Award of the 8th International Conference on Culture and Computing

In this research project, we are focusing on reconstruction of a pretty damaged Roman musical instrument piece, found in Vighenza(Italy). The pieces composing the instrument were first digitized by means of a structured light system, then virtually restored and recomposed applying a on-purpose developed algorithm. Finally, some sounds coherent with the geometry of the reconstructed model were simulated using a physically-based synthesis approach.

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3D printable model generator

In this project, latent vector based 3D model generated models are edited to 3D printable models and get printed out. Models are generated from feature parameters and also these models are designed by computer itself. This is a course project in CS591W1 Computational Fabrication class.

Auto Racing Game

Computer can play with itself! In this project we combined image processing with deep learning, and trained a computer which can play racing game! This is a course project in CS585 Image and Video Computing class. You can find our report here.