Design VR Pop-up book experience from the principles of creating immersive user experience

The National Library of the Netherlands boasts an extensive collection of Pop-up books. However, due to their age, some of these Pop-up books have deteriorated over time, making it impossible to display them to the public. Nonetheless, emerging VR/AR technologies offer a solution to this issue. By recreating these Pop-up books within the VR/AR...

Tip & Top in Virtual Reality: The integration of virtual materiality and interactive storytelling in a historical VR pop-up book experience

This project focuses on translating a historical pop-up book into a meaningful virtual experience. The project is in collaboration with the National Library (KB) of the Netherlands, which has a special collection of historical pop-up books. The KB will be moving their collections to an external location, making the books inaccessible. These...

Fluidic Control: Tangible control mechanisms for multi-material fluidic driven interfaces with material jetting additive manufacturing

Fluidic interfaces use liquids to sense, compute, and output a dynamic appearance or behavior in response to mechanical deformation inputs.<br/>Integrating logic and user-actuated control mechanisms in the interfaces can, in the future, enable to achieve more complex dynamic behaviors for designing interactive artifacts that are entirely analog...

A digital workflow for 3D printed full-colour ocular prosthetics

Fabricating custom-made ocular prostheses is currently a highly-skilled, labour-intense and non-reproducible process performed by an ocularist. Custom-fit prostheses are made from acrylic using a plaster mould, the iris is hand-painted, and veins are mimicked by adding red embroidery threads. Digital production techniques provide opportunities...

Enhancing museum experiences: A conceptual design framework for tech-enabled visitor experience enhancement of museum exhibit

Executive summary Visiting a museum is not only about the unique collection or the information available. Visiting a museum is about the visitor. Without them, what would be the point of putting a collection on display? Exhibitions are only as relevant as they are experienced to be. In line with this thought, the graduation project presented in...

Digital Delft Blue, a new approach

Royal Delft is the oldest manufacturer of delftware that is still producing Delft Blue using traditional techniques up to this day. At the core of their company lies the craftsmanship of producing delftware by hand, from creating the moulds to hand-painting each piece of Delft Blue. With a fast moving industry, Royal Delft needs to innovate...

Flavobacteria's Structural Colour: Characterizing, Capturing and Communicating the Temporal and Iridescent Appearance of Flavobacteria

Flavobacteria could become a sustainable alternative for the colouring industry by using them to grow colours on artefacts, as they are capable of creating dazzling structural colour. To contribute to this development, the temporal and iridescent appearance is characterized, captured and communicated within this graduation project. The...

Integrating gloss scan to the 3D fine art scanner

The gloss-capturing prototype was a first step towards the reproduction of the gloss levels in different parts of the painting and the basic principles were verified with this system. However, it was not yet an integrated system with the 3D fine art scanner. For this thesis the different components of the gloss scanner have been analyzed and...

Improving workflow of the 3D scanner for paintings

A 3D scanner for paintings was previously developed. The developed 3D scanner utilises fringe projection and stereo imaging technique. The system consists of a projector for projecting the fringe patterns and two cameras for capturing. However the usage of this scanner required a lot of user intervention, which made the scanning process a...

Smartframe: Design of an exposition setup for 3d-printed fine-art replicas

Fine art has been with us for centuries. The first known paintings have been made about 40,000 years ago on cave walls. Paintings represent a very fundamental human need to creatively express ourselves. Fine arts still plays a pivotal role in cultural and creative expression. The interest in the paintings of old, as well as the paintings of...

A Redefined Ink Cartridge Inspired by Nature

This graduation project is a research on a new sustainable cartridge solution for Tonerpearls ink. The Tonerpearls cartridge is part of the Colorwave printer, positioned in the market as a ‘green’ flagship. The challenge The report addresses three problem owners: the company; its customers and the environment. The company aims for a cartridge...