I love stuff like this that has literally no practical purpose but it's "we did a cool thing and want to show it off" Never know what your going to get and this has to be one of my favorites
For people who ask 'Why?': One application could be "to easily customise and install the cladding that wraps around oil and gas pipes" (fastcodesign.com)
For people who ask 'Why'?: One reason is you have to come up with something original that has not been done before when you want to prove your skill and education. Also, this may have many different applications, NASA, for example, loves designing complex fabrics.
If the parts were connected by sewing instead of with a zipper, a) would it still work? b) could that possibly be done automatically c) could doing that with a substantially higher turn count (so as to have thinner strips) be effective for making fabric goods with specific curvatures in specific regions? d) could doing so become cost effective and improve clothing? I don't know stuff about how clothes are made, but I've heard that the armpit region of shirts is difficult due to the negative curvature, and because this seems to handle regionals of negative curvature quite well, I was wondering if it might help for that. Oh, also, can this work for things with holes or branching tubes? In any case, this is cool
a) Yes, the compuation is actually even simpler, but it could no longer be assembled in the flat. b) Unfortunately we are not aware of a stitching/sewing machine that is capable of doing this, but that would be certainly interesting to develop. c) In theory yes. But I expect that there will be many practical problems to solve first. d) No idea, but that would be great!
I imagine the technique can be applied to make sheets of graphene that self assembles to complex (and cheap) microscopic 3d objects for medical or industrial purposes. Maybe instead of zippers they can use the mechanism that stitches DNA strands. This is pure speculation w/o technical background btw.
Apart from making couple expensive novelty plushies, nothing really obvious. But that's basic research for you, it often seems useless, but a decade down the line someone has a difficult problem to solve and goes, aha, this fits perfectly. Although I doubt if such a comparison would be useful in any way, but I can see how someone could compare this to protein folding for example. Basic research is often done for its own sake, you don't know what it might amount to, if anything, but practice shows that past basic research can become incredibly useful when you least expect it.
![[SIGGRAPH 2018] Animating Fluid Sediment Mixture in Particle-Laden Flows](/img/1.gif)
This is why I look forward to the SIGGRAPH videos each year.
I like finding Siggraph videos that aren't the typical siggraph videos... there's always something unexpected
I love stuff like this that has literally no practical purpose but it's "we did a cool thing and want to show it off"
Never know what your going to get and this has to be one of my favorites
For people who ask 'Why?': One application could be "to easily customise and install the cladding that wraps around oil and gas pipes" (fastcodesign.com)
A future application would be to create flat molecules of specific shapes which would then automatically zip up into desired 3d shapes.
It is possible to create of tanks and airplanes for backward countries! And sell it to them.
Or a house for Mask...
SIGGRAPH 2020 Software to a realistic automatic animation of a character ZIPPING up the ZIPPABLE
For people who ask 'Why'?: One reason is you have to come up with something original that has not been done before when you want to prove your skill and education. Also, this may have many different applications, NASA, for example, loves designing complex fabrics.
Wow. Brilliant. And with a little more automation of the production process this can make a lot of money.
I wanna buy the Stanford Bunny now-
Not a real presentation if they didn't zip up an armadillo. Smh
Absolutely fabulous.
If the parts were connected by sewing instead of with a zipper,
a) would it still work?
b) could that possibly be done automatically
c) could doing that with a substantially higher turn count (so as to have thinner strips) be effective for making fabric goods with specific curvatures in specific regions?
d) could doing so become cost effective and improve clothing?
I don't know stuff about how clothes are made, but I've heard that the armpit region of shirts is difficult due to the negative curvature, and because this seems to handle regionals of negative curvature quite well, I was wondering if it might help for that.
Oh, also, can this work for things with holes or branching tubes?
In any case, this is cool
a) Yes, the compuation is actually even simpler, but it could no longer be assembled in the flat.
b) Unfortunately we are not aware of a stitching/sewing machine that is capable of doing this, but that would be certainly interesting to develop.
c) In theory yes. But I expect that there will be many practical problems to solve first.
d) No idea, but that would be great!
Im bored
Yeah
Wana make a paper you can zip into any shape
Interesting idea! Do you have any intended user?
This reminds me of the Euler Spiral
Very cool!
Hah! I envision a new Etsy shop opening up in the near future.
Very Interesting !!
One question. How many zippers are needed to create torus-like shapes? :)
Genus of the shape + 1 = number of zippers.
So for a torus you need 2 zippers.
So a double-torus needs three zippers at least. Nice work:)
Junji ito: **heavy breathing**
The next logical step is making the strips using wooden living hinges.
ZIP
*ZIP*
"we fabricate the zippable from fabric"
fabric-ate
ya sneaky little shit
Zippable surfing wetsuit! That would awesome
STICKY....FINGAHS!!!
3d printing with extra step
Wait.. is it jojo reference to Sticky Fingers?
a special offset..
What is the application of this?
fun zippable shapes!
Mars colony tents need to be particularly shaped and built on site.
I imagine the technique can be applied to make sheets of graphene that self assembles to complex (and cheap) microscopic 3d objects for medical or industrial purposes. Maybe instead of zippers they can use the mechanism that stitches DNA strands. This is pure speculation w/o technical background btw.
Apart from making couple expensive novelty plushies, nothing really obvious. But that's basic research for you, it often seems useless, but a decade down the line someone has a difficult problem to solve and goes, aha, this fits perfectly. Although I doubt if such a comparison would be useful in any way, but I can see how someone could compare this to protein folding for example.
Basic research is often done for its own sake, you don't know what it might amount to, if anything, but practice shows that past basic research can become incredibly useful when you least expect it.
I need one
Uzumaki intensifies...
It's quite wholesome but why....
for its own sake?
The future looks bright for BDSM.
a what
TAKE MY MONEY ALREADY!
More like research into underwater basket weaving! /sarcasm