Today I’m just proudly sharing my son’s paper presented at SCF2025 at MIT 😊

Ofir Mirkin and his co-authors introduce a new type of flat-fabricated inflatable structures that we use to approximate the shapes of target developable surfaces. In other words, they program flat sheets so that when they’re inflated, they naturally morph into a desired 3D shape, like the deckchair in the image above.

This work was done in collaboration with Nathan Vani, Etienne Reyssat, José Bico, and Mélina Skouras.