As digital technologies continue to evolve, they offer unprecedented opportunities to
transform traditional educational paradigms. Virtual worlds offer a dynamic and immersive …

Assembly Sequence Planning (ASP) is the essential process for modern manufacturing,
proven to be NP-complete thus its effective and efficient solution has been a challenge for …

We present Roadkill, a software tool that converts 3D models to 2D cutting plans for laser
cutting—such that the resulting layouts allow for fast assembly. Roadkill achieves this by …

This paper presents computational methods to aid the creation of LEGO® 1 sketch models
from simple input images. Beyond conventional LEGO® mosaics, we aim to improve the …

This paper presents a computational pipeline for creating personalized, physical LEGO® 1
figurines from user-input portrait photos. The generated figurine is an assembly of coherently …

This paper presents the first learning-based generative pipeline for effectively creating 3D
LEGO® 1 models. This task is very challenging due to the lack of dedicated representations …

Low-resolution quantized imagery, such as pixel art, is seeing a revival in modern
applications ranging from video game graphics to digital design and fabrication, where …

We introduce the first neural optimization framework to solve a classical instance of the tiling
problem. Namely, we seek a non-periodic tiling of an arbitrary 2D shape using one or more …

Wang tiles, also known as Wang dominoes, are a jigsaw puzzle system with matching
edges. Due to their compactness and expressiveness in representing variations, they have …

This thesis develops mathematical models and algorithms for optimisation of the LEGO
construction problem. This optimisation framework aims to aid a designer in creating a …