For the paper and data, please check out the project page:

This video explains the process more detail:

The Mokume project is a massive collaborative effort led by Maria Larsson at the University of Tokyo (w/Hodaka Yamaguchi, Ehsan Pajouheshgar, I-Chao Shen, Kenji Tojo, Chia-Ming Chang, Lars Hansson, Olof Broman, Takashi Ijiri, Ariel Shamir, and Takeo Igarashi).

To reconstruct their interior, we: 1️⃣Localize annual rings on cube faces 2️⃣ Optimize a procedural growth field that assigns an age to every 3D point (when that wood formed during the tree's life) 3️⃣ Synthesize detailed textures via procedural model or a neural cellular automaton

The Mokume dataset consists of 190 physical wood cubes from 17 species, each documented with: - High-res photos of all 6 faces - Annual ring annotations - Photos of slanted cuts for validation - CT scans revealing the true interior structure (for future use)

Wood textures are everywhere in graphics, but realistic texturing requires knowing what wood looks like throughout its volume, not just on the surfaces. The patterns depend on tree species, growth conditions, and where and how the wood was cut from the tree.

How can one reconstruct the complete 3D interior of a wood block using only photos of its surfaces? 🪵 At SIGGRAPH'25 (Thursday!), Maria Larsson will present *Mokume*: a dataset of 190 diverse wood samples and a pipeline that solves this inverse texturing challenge. 🧵👇

Leaving #SIGGRAPH2022, it has been amazing to experience it in person and talk to you all! Hope to see you next year! @emxtyu @FelixHahnlein

木材の「ほぞ組み継手」を自動設計　東大「Tsugite」開発  https://t.co/6dNVG96XC5  釘やビスを使わず木材を組み合わせられる接合部の切る形状を自動計算。木材の寸法,つなぐ角度,本数を入力に接合部を設計、CNC切削機を動かす切削データで書き出す。一方の木材を設計で対になる木材も自動設計される。

We are really excited to hear from Mina Konakovic Lukovic and Maria Larsson in a fabrication-themed session at 8 AM Eastern this Wednesday! Share with your friends! (Especially, your friends in other timezones who can catch it live!) You can watch at https://t.co/87vrrV4a3J

Maria Larsson from the User Interface Research Group, and her team, created an application to simplify the design and fabrication of functional wooden structures like furniture. It’s called tsugite (継手), the Japanese word for joinery. #UTokyoFocus https://t.co/YIpkRe3x8H

The Video Previews for @ACMUIST are online! Watch 30 second teaser videos of every Paper, Demo, and Poster to get an overview of the work that will be presented. Plan the #uist2020 talks you want to see and create your reading list in advance! Papers:

Can't wait for #UIST2020? Read about one of our accepted papers in "Updating the art of joinery for the 21st century" by Maria Larsson

Check this out! Sculptural swirl-column created by me and Hironori Yoshida exhibited at Miraikan. It is produced by 3D-scanning, running a shape-matching algorithm, and fabricating the joints with a CNC-machine.