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SUBMITTER: Raviv D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4270353 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20141218
We propose a new design of complex self-evolving structures that vary over time due to environmental interaction. In conventional 3D printing systems, materials are meant to be stable rather than active and fabricated models are designed and printed as static objects. Here, we introduce a novel approach for simulating and fabricating self-evolving structures that transform into a predetermined shape, changing property and function after fabrication. The new locally coordinated bending primitives ...[more]