Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Cornell University

Eth Zurich (eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zurich)

Eth Zurich (eidgenoessiche Technische Hochschule Zurich)

Stephen Robert Marschner

Wojciech Matusik

Markus H Gross

Derek Edward Bradley

Thabo D Beeler

Philip John Jackson

Bernd Bickel

Bernhard Thomaszewski

Francois Guimbretiere

Rundong Wu

Peter Kaufmann

Huaishu Peng

Systems and methods are provided for incremental 3D printing, wherein wireframes are generated and printed (scheduled for print) during the design process. In another aspect, systems and methods are provided for printing arbitrary meshes. A 3D printer system is described having, for example, five degree-of-freedom (5DOF). The 5DOF printer may be used to perform any of the methods described herein and combinations of the methods.

Methods for incremental 3D printing and 3D printing arbitrary wireframe meshes

A computer-implemented method is provided for physical face cloning to generate a synthetic skin. Rather than attempt to reproduce the mechanical properties of biological tissue, an output-oriented approach is utilized that models the synthetic skin as an elastic material with isotropic and homogeneous properties (e.g., silicone rubber). The method includes capturing a plurality of expressive poses from a human subject and generating a computational model based on one or more material parameters of a material. In one embodiment, the computational model is a compressible neo-Hookean material model configured to simulate deformation behavior of the synthetic skin. The method further includes optimizing a shape geometry of the synthetic skin based on the computational model and the captured expressive poses. An optimization process is provided that varies the thickness of the synthetic skin based on a minimization of an elastic energy with respect to rest state positions of the synthetic skin.

Physical face cloning

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Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Stephen Robert Marschner