Computational design and fabrication of 3D wire bending art

Abstract

Wire sculpture is a unique art form where an artist represents a 3D form using 1D wires. However, the design of novel wire sculpture is difficult and limited to talented experts. We introduce a computer-assisted framework for manually creating 3D wire bending art from given 3D models. Our method extracts a set of 3D contour-curves from several viewpoints as a target design of wire sculpture. Next, we generate several grooves on the 3D surface of the given model, and prints it with 3D printer as a 3D support. By directly fitting wires into the grooves and assembling, users can manually fabricate 3D wire bending art easily and quickly.