HapticPrint: Designing Feel Aesthetics for Digital Fabrication
summary
HapticPrint presents concrete tools: UV-mapped height maps that wrap 2D grayscale textures onto meshes and print at ~0.1 mm using a thermoplastic elastomer; a library of patterned infills that produce measurable compliance modeled as linear springs (K calibrated against human pinch force 50–100 N); and injectable weight chambers created by a modified Cura slicer that accept sand, hot glue, iron filings or ball bearings. All techniques run on a single‑material FDM printer and produce predictable tactile, compliance and weighting effects.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to HapticPrint
- 1:58Haptic design principles
- 4:49Texture design techniques
- 7:41Compliance design with infills
- 9:29Weight design and applications
- 12:19Practical applications and demos
- 14:47Design tools and reference palettes
- 15:53Limitations and future work
- 16:37Acknowledgments and Q&A
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