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Get 50 off your first month of KiwiCo. Use code STEVEMOULD at This bistable auxetic material gets bigger in all directions when you stretch it. It s also becomes 3 dimensional The paper by Tian Chen and colleagues is: Bistable auxetic surface structures, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 40(4), 19. (Chen, T., Panetta, J., Schnaubelt, M., Pauly, M. (2021) You can find the cut patterns and other recourses here: Tian is currently working at the Architected Intelligent Matter Laboratory: Here s my video about flexible polyhedra: Veritasium video about compliant mechanisms: Here s my Discord server: You can buy my books here: