Section: New Results

Towards Zero-Waste Furniture Design

• Participants: Bongjin Koo, Jean Hergel, Sylvain Lefebvre, Niloy J. Mitra.

This project considered the optimization of parametric models of furniture to reduce the wastage of material used to fabricate the model. Our approach uses a 2D packing algorithm to pack the different parts of the furniture in a wooden plank. Then we optimize locally the wastage by editing smoothly the parameters with only moving smoothly the parts in the packing space. We produced full size objects with laser cutter to prove the efficiency of our method. This work has been accepted in Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

Figure 5. Our technique modifies the parameters of the input design (a) to improve the packing and waste less material (b). The produced furniture is shown in (c).