Microwave Origami: an automated paper craft made up in a microwave oven.
POPAPY is an instant paper craft that is made up in a microwave oven. With ordinary paper and designed special sheets, we can get 3D paper craft by 1-minute microwave cooking.
The special sheet is made from a combination of two materials, a heat-shrinkable sheet and a microwave-safe aluminum sheet (susceptor). The aluminum sheet absorbs microwaves and provides heat energy to the heat-shrinkable sheet efficiently. Then the shrinking sheet bends and folds the paper. We established a design method for the bending angle and bending timing by changing the size of the two materials.
Publication:
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Kentaro Yasu, Masahiko Inami, "POPAPY", ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Studio Projects, (Los Angeles, 2012. 8.5-9) 2012.8 (Demo)
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Kentaro Yasu and Masahiko Inami. 2012. POPAPY: instant paper craft made up in a microwave oven. In Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment (ACE'12), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 406-420. DOI = http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34292-9_29
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◯ Kentaro Yasu, Masahiko Inami, "POPAPY: Design method for paper crafts created by heating a microwave oven", Entertainment Computing 2012 Proceedings, pp283-290, September 2012, (Refereed) [Peer Review] [Art Science Meeting Award] (2012 / 09 / 28-30 @ Kobe University)
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◯ Shang-hua Yang, Kentaro Yasu, Masahiko Inami, “POPAPY: Postcard design that transforms into a paper figure using a microwave oven”, 23rd Information Processing Society of Japan Entertainment Computing Study Group Research Presentation, Session 3 : Real World, (8), March 2012.
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Kentaro Yasu, Masahiko, Inami, (2014). "POPAPY", Ars Electronica 2014 Festival for Art, Technology, and Society. Pp.106, ISBN: 978-3-7757-3849-1 http://www.aec. at / center / en / 2014/09/02 / popapy /