A fabrication-oriented remeshing method for auxetic pattern extraction

Abstract

We propose a method for extracting auxetic patterns from meshes for fabrication by modifying the existingmesh primitives directly and fully automatically. This direct approach is novel in the sense that most of the fabricationoriented surface tiling methods introduce additional primitives, such as curve networks in an interactive semiautomaticframework. Our method is based on a remeshing procedure that converts a given quad mesh with arbitrary topologyinto our desired structure that is ready to be fabricated. The main advantages of establishing auxetic patterns onmeshes are the achieved flexibility using cheap inflexible materials as well as less material usage and fabrication time, asdemonstrated in our results.