Designing 3D-Printed Mechanical Characters from Motion Curves
DisneyResearchHub · Demo · YouTube title: Computational Design of Mechanical Characters
Why it's here
HN cites it as an example of computational mechanism design, especially in threads on gears, linkages and animatronics.
What it covers
A Disney Research SIGGRAPH 2013 demo of an interactive system that lets non-experts design animated mechanical characters. The user sketches motion curves and the system generates optimized mechanisms and gear trains for 3D printing.