Wandering the Web -- Pop-up and Movable Books

Haptic pop-out of movable stimuli

When, in visual and haptic search, a target is easily found among distractors, this is called a pop-out effect. The target feature is then believed to be salient, and the search is performed in a parallel way. We investigated this effect with movable stimuli in a haptic search task. The task was to find a movable ball among anchored distractors or the other way round. Results show that reaction...

A Toolbox For Movable Books Digitization

Nowadays, scanning and diffusing fac-similes are well studied and known tasks. However digitizing movable books addresses new issues. In this paper, we describe preliminary results about a software that eases the rebuilding of moving systems of such books. This tool computes, in a semi-automatic way, the reassembling of the system’s texture, the detection of the system’s shape, its rebuilding i...

Pop-up book MEMS

We present a design methodology and manufacturing process for the construction of articulated three-dimensional microstructures with features on the micron to centimeter scale. Flexure mechanisms and assembly folds result from the bulk machining and lamination of alternating rigid and compliant layers, similar to rigid-flex printed circuit board construction. Pop-up books and other forms of pap...

Paper pop up pdf

Pop - up book MEMS

We present a design methodology and manufacturing process for the construction of articulated three-dimensional microstructures with features on the micron to centimeter scale. Flexure mechanisms and assembly folds result from the bulk machining and lamination of alternating rigid and compliant layers, similar to rigid-flex printed circuit board construction. Pop-up books and other forms of pap...