Home

Person

Mark Pauly

This person has left EPFL

About
Privacy
Disclaimer

Graph Chatbot

Related publications (87)

Page 2 of 5

Controlling caustics

Mark Pauly

Caustics are captivating light patterns created by materials focusing or diverting light by refraction or reflection. We know caustics as random side effects, appearing, for example, at the bottom of a swimming pool, or generated by many glass objects, lik ...

2013

Design of a refractive surface

Mark Pauly, Yuliy Gennadievich Schwartzburg

Method of designing a refractive surface, comprising providing a refractive object having a refractive surface with an initial geometry, determining a refraction of incident illumination through the refractive surface with the initial geometry to create a ...

2017

C-Tubes: Design and Optimization of Tubular Structures Composed of Developable Strips

Mark Pauly, Florin Isvoranu, Quentin Christian Becker, Michele Vidulis

We introduce C-tubes, 3D tubular structures composed of developable surface strips. C-tubes can be understood as a generalization of Monge surfaces---a special class of sweep surfaces---towards the recently introduced cone-nets. This observation allows fo ...

2025

Double-layered timber plate shell. International Journal of Space Structures

Yves Weinand, Mark Pauly, Christopher Werner Matthias Robeller, Mina Konakovic Lukovic, Mira Dedijer

This article presents a new lightweight construction system for doubly curved shells made from timber plates, inspired by the masonry vaults of Eladio Dieste. The system was developed for a specific case-study project, and general applications to other fre ...

2017

Computational Homogenization for Inverse Design of Surface-based Inflatables

Mark Pauly, Florin Isvoranu, Francis Julian Panetta, Yingying Ren, Seiichi Eduardo Suzuki Erazo, Uday Kusupati

Surface-based inflatables are composed of two thin layers of nearly inextensible sheet material joined together along carefully selected fusing curves. During inflation, pressure forces separate the two sheets to maximize the enclosed volume. The fusing c ...

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)2024

Interactive Design of Probability Density Functions for Shape Grammars

Mark Pauly, Duygu Ceylan, Boris Neubert, Stefan Lienhard

A shape grammar defines a procedural shape space containing a variety of models of the same class, e.g. buildings, trees, furniture, airplanes, bikes, etc. We present a framework that enables a user to interactively design a probability density function (p ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2015

Dynamic Geometry Processing

Mark Pauly

Throughout the last few years, acquisition and processing of dynamic geometry has already received quite an amount of attention in the computer vision and graphics research community. Recently, the topic has gained a significant boost due to the availabili ...

The Eurographics Association2012

Interactive design exploration for constrained meshes

Mark Pauly, Sofien Bouaziz, Bailin Deng, Yuliy Gennadievich Schwartzburg, Mario Moacir Deuss, Alexandre Kaspar

In architectural design, surface shapes are commonly subject to geometric constraints imposed by material, fabrication or assembly. Rationalization algorithms can convert a freeform design into a form feasible for production, but often require design modif ...

2015

Design and Optimization of Orthogonally Intersecting Planar Surfaces

Mark Pauly, Yuliy Gennadievich Schwartzburg

We present a method for the design of 3D constructions from planar pieces that can be cut easily and cheaply with laser cutters and similar Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machines. By cutting tight slits in intersecting pieces, they can be slid into each ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2012

Computing correspondences in geometric data sets

Mark Pauly, Hao Li

Shape registration and, more generally speaking, computing correspondence across shapes are fundamental problems in computer graphics and vision. Problems from this area show up in many diff erent variants such as scan registration, deformable shape matchi ...

2011

Computational Design of Weingarten Surfaces

Mark Pauly, Davide Pellis

In this paper we study Weingarten surfaces and explore their potential for fabrication-aware design in freeform architecture. Weingarten surfaces are characterized by a functional relation between their principal curvatures that implicitly defines approxim ...

2021

A hydrodynamically optimized nano-electrospray ionization source and vacuum interface

Klaus Kern, Mark Pauly, Stephan Rauschenbach, Gordon Rinke

The coupling of atmospheric pressure ionization (API) sources like electrospray ionization (ESI) to vacuum based applications like mass spectrometry (MS) or ion beam deposition (IBD) is done by differential pumping, starting with a capillary or pinhole inl ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2014

Smooth-Rolling Knots

Mark Pauly, Michele Vidulis

Morton's knots are a family of space curves to which there is no plane simultaneously tangent in three distinct points. This property enables a physical instance to roll on a plane while having at most two contact points with it. These knots are not smooth ...

2025

Online Generative Model Personalization for Hand Tracking

Mark Pauly, Edoardo Remelli, Andrea Tagliasacchi, Anastasia Tkach

We present a new algorithm for real-time hand tracking on commodity depth-sensing devices. Our method does not require a user-specific calibration session, but rather learns the geometry as the user performs live in front of the camera, thus enabling seaml ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2017

MOCCA: Modeling and Optimizing Cone-joints for Complex Assemblies

Mark Pauly, Ziqi Wang, Peng Song

We present a computational framework for modeling and optimizing complex assemblies using cone joints. Cone joints are integral joints that generalize traditional single-direction joints such as mortise and tenon joints to support a general cone of directi ...

2021

Dynamic 3D Avatar Creation from Hand-held Video Input

Mark Pauly, Sofien Bouaziz, Alexandru Eugen Ichim

We present a complete pipeline for creating fully rigged, personalized 3D facial avatars from hand-held video. Our system faithfully recovers facial expression dynamics of the user by adapting a blendshape template to an image sequence of recorded expressi ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2015

Umbrella Meshes: Elastic Mechanisms for Freeform Shape Deployment

Mark Pauly, Florin Isvoranu, Tian Chen, Yingying Ren, Uday Kusupati, Davide Pellis

We present a computational inverse design framework for a new class of volumetric deployable structures that have compact rest states and deploy into bending-active 3D target surfaces. Umbrella meshes consist of elastic beams, rigid plates, and hinge joint ...

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)2022

Interactive Design of C-shells Using Reduced Parametric Families

Mark Pauly, Quentin Christian Becker, Seiichi Eduardo Suzuki Erazo

Elastic gridshells are a class of planar-to-3D linkages typically composed of straight flexible beams connected via rigid rotational joints. The integration of planar curved flexible beams into these linkages significantly broadens their design space, allo ...

2024

Discovering Structured Variations via Coupled Template Matching

Mark Pauly, Duygu Ceylan, Boris Neubert, Ngoc Minh Dang

Understanding patterns of variation from raw measurement data remains a central goal of shape analysis. This understanding reveals which elements are exactly repeated, or how elements can be derived as structured variations from a common base element. We i ...

2016

Phace: Physics-based Face Modeling and Animation

Mark Pauly, Ladislav Kavan, Alexandru Eugen Ichim

We present a novel physics-based approach to facial animation. Contrary to commonly used generative methods, our solution computes facial expressions by minimizing a set of non-linear potential energies that model the physical interaction of passive flesh, ...

2017