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Computational Design of Mechanical Characters
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A Disney Research SIGGRAPH 2013 demo of an interactive system that lets non-experts design animated mechanical characters. The user sketches motion curves and the system generates optimized mechanisms and gear trains for 3D printing.
HN cites it as an example of computational mechanism design, especially in threads on gears, linkages and animatronics.
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