Skeleton-Based Interactive Fabrication for Large-Scale Newspaper Sculpture

In this work, we propose a large-scale fabrication technique that uses newspapers with accessible and tractable properties. The system utilizes an interactive guidance system allowing common users to achieve large-scale newspaper sculptures from target 3D models. To maintain the fabrication shape, the proposed system provides an automatic design approach to create skeleton structures, which are formed from multiple chopsticks using the specialized connectors with 3D printing. Our system can support users in building complex newspaper sculptures. The interactive projection guidance is provided to visualize the differences between the depth maps of the target model and the current work so that the users can overlap the newspapers where needed. We evaluate the usefulness of the guidance system for fabrication support and the fabrication process with the proposed skeleton structure in our user study.