volzotan / mirrorforge

a processing and simulation pipeline to prototype complex mirror shapes by thermoforming or bending coated polystyrene sheets

MirrorForge - Rapid Prototyping of Complex Mirrors for Camera and Projector Systems

This is the repository for MirrorForge: Rapid Prototyping of Complex Mirrors for Camera and Projector Systems, a processing and simulation pipeline to prototype complex mirror shapes by thermoforming or bending coated polystyrene sheets.

Installation

Copy the addin directory to your Fusion360 extension folder.
Install Blender and the BlendLuxCore Blender plugin.
In Blender enable the BlendLuxCore plugin in the plugins tab in preferences.

Make sure to install a version of Blender which is explicitly supported by LuxCore.

Quickstart

In Fusion360 start the Add-In via Tools > Add-Ins > Add-Ins (Tab) > Run
Enable Run on Startup to permanently enable the MirrorForge Add-In.

Examples

See the examples directory for two example outputs.

Open circular_projection.blend to familiarize yourself with a rendering setup featuring a laser pico projector. The example file twoway_camera.blend is a camera setup.

Citation

You can find the open access paper in the ACM library: Mirrorforge.pdf

If you want to use and cite this work:

@inproceedings{10.1145/3490149.3501329,
    author = {Getschmann, Christopher and Mthunzi, Everett and Echtler, Florian},
    title = {MirrorForge: Rapid Prototyping of Complex Mirrors for Camera and Projector Systems},
    year = {2022},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3490149.3501329},
    doi = {10.1145/3490149.3501329},
    booktitle = {Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction},
    location = {Daejeon, Republic of Korea},
    series = {TEI '22}
}