Tangible cellular structure, associated method
AssigneesStudio B26, Mikael Bitton
InventorMikael BITTON
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Abstract
A tangible structure includes a set of removable and parallel rods, each rod including a head; a set of drive devices, each drive device including a motor element generating a rotational motion to a transverse shaft to transmit a translational motion to a rod, the drive device being piloted in order to transmit a motion to the rod at a given speed and in a given direction; a holding system for the drive devices making the drive devices integral with each other, and a calculator determining a set of pilot set points, each pilot set point being transmitted to a drive device on the basis of a first digital set point.
Claims14
A tangible structure, comprising:
- a set of movable and parallel rods, each rod including a head;
- a set of drive devices, each drive device including a motor element generating a rotational movement to a transverse shaft to transmit a translational motion to a rod, said drive device being piloted in order to transmit a motion to the rod at a given speed and in a given direction;
- a holding system for the drive devices making said drive devices integral with each other;
- a calculator arranged to determine a set of pilot set points, each pilot set point being transmitted to a drive device on the basis of a first digital set point.
A method for generating a three-dimensional shape by activating a plurality of rods of a tangible structure, said rods being arranged in parallel to each other, said method comprising:
- receiving an image made by a communication interface or a memory of the structure;
- calculating a plurality of stroke indicators for a plurality of sets of pixels of the image, each stroke indicator being calculated for a given rod of the structure depending on the properties of each set of pixels;
- guiding the set of rods by means of each drive device, said drive devices each generating a motor set point from a pilot set point deduced from the stroke indicators, each pilot set point further generating an electrical set point each piloting a light source arranged at the end of each rod and activating a property of the light emitted by each of them.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.