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Neri Oxman.
Tsai, Elizabeth Yinling
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture. Program in Media Arts and Sciences.
Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2014-11-24T18:37:18Z
2014-11-24T18:37:18Z
2012
2013
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, September 2013.
"September 2013." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-76).
Inherent across all scales in Nature's material systems are multiple design dimensions, the existences of which are products of both evolution and environment. In human manufacturing where design must be preconceived and deliberate, static artifacts with no variation of function across directions, distances or time fail to capture many of these dimensions. Inspired by Nature's ability to generate complex structures and responses to external constraints through adaptation, "4D printing" addresses additive fabrication of artifacts with one or more additional design dimension, such as material variation over distance or direction and response or adaptation over time. This work presents and evaluates a series of enabling explorations into the material, time and information dimensions of additive manufacturing: a variable elasticity rapid prototyping platform and an approach towards Digital Anisotropy, a variable impedance prosthetic socket (VTS) as a case study of interfaces between nature and manufacture, CNSilk as an example of on-demand material generation in freeform tensile fabrication, and Material DNA as an exploration into embedded spatio-temporal content variation.
by Elizabeth Yinling Tsai.
S.M.
76 pages
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Architecture. Program in Media Arts and Sciences.
4D printing : towards biomimetic additive manufacturing
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Towards biomimetic additive manufacturing
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