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Design of Self-supporting Surfaces ¨ Etienne Vouga Mathias Hobinger Johannes Wallner Helmut Pottmann Columbia Univ. / KAUST Evolute / TU Wien TU Graz / TU Wien KAUST Figure 1: Left: Surfaces with irregularly placed holes are hard to realize as masonry, where the mortar between bricks must not be subject to tensile stresses. The surface shown here, surprisingly, has this property – it has been found as the nearest self-supporting shape from a given freeform geometry. The fictitious thrust network used in our algorithms is superimposed, with edges’ cross-section and coloring visualizing the magnitude of forces (warmer colors represent higher stresses.) Right: Curvature analysis with respect to the Airy stress surface tells us how to remesh shapes by self-supporting quad meshes with planar faces. This guides steel/glass constructions with low moments in nodes. Abstract 1 Introduction Self-supporting masonry is one of the most ancient and elegant Vaulted masonry structures are among the simplest and at the same techniques for building curved shapes. Because of the very geomet- time most elegant solutions for creating curved shapes in building ric nature of their failure, analyzing and modeling such strutures is construction. For this reason they have been an object of inter- more a geometry processing problem than one of classical contin- est since antiquity; large, non-convex examples of such structures uum mechanics. This paper uses the thrust network method of anal- include gothic cathedrals. They continue to be an active topic of ysis and presents an iterat