Early explorations of deformable interactive designs with 3D-printed springs

We propose a tool-based workflow that allows novice users to create deformable 3D-printed objects with embedded spring structures. In our early exploration, we investigated possible deformation behaviors, implemented a GUI-based computational tool, and made minor modifications to a commodity 3D printer to support spring printing. The goal of this poster is to describe our research vision and share our early results with the computational fabrication community.