Designing Plush Toys with a Computer

Igarashi and Igarashi

domain specific design simulation feedback plush toys soft materials

@article{igarashi:communications2009,
  title={Designing Plush Toys with a Computer},
  author={Yuki Igarashi and Takeo Igarashi},
  journal={Communications of the {ACM}},
  year={2009},
  month={December},
  volume={52},
  number={12}
}

Simple sketch based interface for designing plush toys and balloons

• Simple pallette of operators enables rapidly drawing and manipulating shapes in intuitive fashion
• Immediate simulation estimates the constructed shape
  • Simple mechanism pushes out the mesh as if stuffed
• Simulation-in-loop design ensures design is always realizable, provides immediate feedback on what it be like