PolagonStudio

Design tool for

Polagons: Designing and Fabricating Polarized Light Mosaics with User-Defined Color Changing Behaviors. Ticha Sethapakdi, Laura Huang, Vivian Chan, Lung-Pan Cheng, Fernando Fuzinatto Dall'Agnol, Stefanie Mueller.

The Processing interface takes input SVG file(s) and converts them into laser cuttable polarized light mosaics made from cellophane. Please refer to the paper for more details.

Requirements

This code requires the following Python3 libraries:

• numpy
• scipy
• pandas
• flask
• matplotlib
• cairosvg

Running/using the code

1. cd PolagonStudio/backend
2. Run the Polagon backend script: python3 polagon_service.py
3. Open Processing. Make sure you have the ControlP5 Processing library installed
4. Run the PolagonStudio Processing sketch. Save all SVGs to the data/ folder in the Processing sketch. Fabrication-ready files are saved to data/cut/