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This paper presents a set of three different designed objects which each take a different approach to the same concept - the active destruction of sound recordings. I situate this work within sustainability studies, political ecologies of technology, ...

The access and growing ubiquity of digital fabrication has ushered in a celebration of creativity and “making.” However, the focus is often on the resulting static artifact or the creative process and tools to design it. We envision a post-making ...

Customization interfaces allow players to tailor character appearance to represent desired self-concepts, increasing character identification and contributing towards enjoyment. Yet, despite their ubiquity, such interfaces seldom allow modification of ...

In ”Frozen 2”, a key story point is centered around the destruction of a large dam. The scale and scope of this effect necessitated the development of a cross-departmental, effects-driven workflow. Effects were introduced and planned at the layout stage ...

The intersection between social, technical, and economic factors biases new product development to focus on utilitarian value. However, objects that serve alternative goals, behaviors and emotions have accompanied humankind for millennia. This article ...

The authors consider a technique of experimental and theoretical assessment of decreasing service life of reinforced concrete structures of residential buildings under permanent industrial large-scale explosions of capacity of 500 to 700 tons in the ...

This talk discusses the SimpleBullet destruction system that was initially developed at Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), and then subsequently adopted and extended by Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS) and Pixar Animation Studios (Pixar). ...

We present the workflow and methodology for managing large scale destruction and volumetric simulations within Weta Digital's proprietary pipeline for the live action feature Rampage. Starting with character motion and a structurally accurate, highly ...

The high-speed chase sequence in Deadpool encompassed one hundred shots of new challenges for the team at Atomic Fiction. The action had to move through many miles of densely populated fictional city, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. The ...

While personal fabrication tools, such as laser cutters and milling machines, are intended for construction, we are exploring their use for destruction. We present a series of games that result in valuable physical objects being destroyed objects owned ...

We propose a new fast, robust and controllable method to simulate the dynamic destruction of large and complex objects in real time. The common method for fracture simulation in computer games is to pre-fracture models and replace objects by their pre-...

Whilst previous research examined the behaviour of humans instructed to destroy robots, this paper is concerned with the question "Are humans tempted to destroy robots?" For this purpose, an interactive installation was created, consisting of the robot ...

Robots are being introduced in our society but their social status is still unclear. A critical issue is if the robot's exhibition of intelligent life-like behavior leads to the users' perception of animacy. The ultimate test for the life-likeness of a ...