by Hang Wang & Varun Gadh Abstract Touch & Melt explores human-machine collaborative fabrication in a process that leverages an innate human skill and a functional robotic skill. The ability to find and focus on engaging physical facets of objects and unique textures on object surfaces – and relatedly, the ability to easily generate an intricate
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Tactile Abstraction (Shortest Path Prototype)
This project uses MoCap technology to leverage human tactile scanning to the end of generating an abstracted version of the form of the scanned object. It will take advantage of innate human skill of highlighting artifacts of particular tactile importance. It will then recreate an abstracted version of the scan using a hot air rework
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Deform + Reform – Human-Machine Tactile Caricature
The purpose of this project is to integrate machine skill and human skill to respond to, and generate in abstract, a tactile caricature of an object. We aim to explore fabrication that relies on fully robotic active skills and a pair of human skills (one of which is innate, and the other of which would
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