Plush Toy Design Software



Yuki Mori and Takeo Igarashi from The University of Tokyo have created this really cool tool for designing plush toy patterns. It looks very easy to learn and lets you model completely original toys, then gives you the 2D pattern from which to sew. Computer science just got cute. - [via] Link.


Posted by Becky Stern | Dec 7, 2007 04:00 PM add to kirtsy
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Posted by: Ash on May 22, 2009 at 3:50 PM

Great concept. Too bad I can't test it since I can't get it to open...


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Posted by: peter on November 28, 2008 at 1:01 PM

How do you open the program? anyone?


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Posted by: jin on September 23, 2008 at 9:43 AM

where?

where can i download this software?
thanks


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Posted by: knife!! on January 31, 2008 at 12:04 PM

i couldn't even get the program to open..


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Posted by: kitschykat on January 16, 2008 at 11:54 AM

The program was unusably buggy. After drawing the initial shape, weird geometry sprouted out of nowhere and expanded on both the pattern side and the design side. We tried it on 3 different computers.

It looks awesome in the demo. I hope someone debugs it.


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Posted by: Groksocket on December 9, 2007 at 9:20 AM

The website is here, seems they do have a demo for download.

http://www.den.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/%7Eyuki/plushie/index-e.html


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Posted by: johloh on December 9, 2007 at 8:56 AM

nm, program works great! (it froze up on me the first time I used it)...go download it!


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Posted by: Therese on December 8, 2007 at 2:00 PM

That's fantastic ~ I wonder if it could be used to make clothing patterns as well?


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Posted by: sarahhh on December 7, 2007 at 9:55 PM

is this really being released? where can we find it, &/or where should we watch for more news?


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Posted by: meg on December 7, 2007 at 6:08 PM

that is unbelievable! I wish I could try it out.


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