Luigi Malomo, Ph.D.

Researcher at Visual Computing Lab of the
Institute of Information Science and Technologies "A. Faedo" (ISTI),
Italian National Research Council (CNR)

Research

My research work focuses on a variety of topics concerning Computer Graphics, including:

• Computational Fabrication
• Geometry Processing
• Architectural Geometry

Publications

2024

• Computational design of segmented concrete shells made of post-tensioned precast flat tiles
  Francesco Laccone, Sandro Menicagli, Paolo Cignoni, Luigi Malomo
  Structures, Vol. 62 - March 2024
• Procedural generation of geometric patterns for thin shell fabrication
  Elena Scandurra, Francesco Laccone, Luigi Malomo, Marco Callieri, Paolo Cignoni,Daniela Giorgi
  Computers & Graphics, Vol. 122 - June 2024

2023

• Geometric deep learning for statics-aware grid shells
  Andrea Favilli, Francesco Laccone, Paolo Cignoni, Luigi Malomo, Daniela Giorgi
  Computers & Structures, Vol. 292 - December 2023
• Bending-reinforced grid shells for free-form architectural surfaces
  Francesco Laccone, Nico Pietroni, Paolo Cignoni, Luigi Malomo
  Computer Aided Design, Vol. 168 - December 2023
• Computational design of fabricable geometric patterns
  Elena Scandurra, Francesco Laccone, Luigi Malomo, Marco Callieri, Paolo Cignoni, Daniela Giorgi
  STAG: Smart Tools and Apps for Graphics - November 2023
• Statics and stability of bending-optimized double-layer grid shell
  Francesco Laccone, Nico Pietroni, Maurizio Froli, Paolo Cignoni, Luigi Malomo
  Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Vol. 437
  IWSS 2023 - Italian Workshop on Shell and Spatial Structures, 26-28 June, Turin (Italy)
• Static- and fabrication-aware segmented concrete shells made of post- tensioned precast flat tiles
  Francesco Laccone, Sandro Menicagli, Paolo Cignoni, Luigi Malomo
  Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Vol. 437
  IWSS 2023 - Italian Workshop on Shell and Spatial Structures, 26-28 June, Turin (Italy)
• A geometry-preserving shape optimization tool based on deep learning
  Andrea Favilli, Francesco Laccone, Paolo Cignoni, Luigi Malomo, Daniela Giorgi
  Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Vol. 437
  IWSS 2023 - Italian Workshop on Shell and Spatial Structures, 26-28 June, Turin (Italy)

2022

• Vorogrid: A static-aware variable-density Voronoi mesh to design the tube structure tessellation of tall buildings
  Francesco Laccone, Domenico Gaudioso, Luigi Malomo, Paolo Cignoni, Maurizio Froli
  Computer-Aided Civil And Infrastructure Engineering, Volume 38, Issue 6 - September 2022
• State of the Art in Computational Mould Design
  Thomas Alderighi, Luigi Malomo, Thomas Auzinger, Bernd Bickel, Paolo Cignoni, Nico Pietroni
  Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 41, Issue 6 - September 2022
• Automated generation of flat tileable patterns and 3D reduced model simulation
  Iason Manolas, Francesco Laccone, Gianmarco Cherchi, Luigi Malomo, Paolo Cignoni
  Computers & Graphics, Volume 106 - August 2022
• Design And Construction Of a Bending-Active Plywood Structure: The Flexmaps Pavilion
  Francesco Laccone, Luigi Malomo, Marco Callieri, Thomas Alderighi, Alessandro Muntoni, Federico Ponchio, Nico Pietroni, Paolo Cignoni
  Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, Volume 63, Issue 2 - June 2022
• Exploratory study on a segmented shell made of recycled-HDPE plastic
  Francesco Laccone, Iason Manolas, Luigi Malomo, Paolo Cignoni
  IASS 2020/21 - Inspiring the Next Generation. The 7th International Conference on Spatial Structures and the Annual Symposium of the IASS

2021

• Volume decomposition for two-piece rigid casting
  Thomas Alderighi, Luigi Malomo, Bernd Bickel, Paolo Cignoni, Nico Pietroni
  ACM Trans. on Graphics - SIGGRAPH Asia 2021, Volume 40, Issue 6 - December 2021
• Integrated computational framework for the design and fabrication of bending-active structures made from flat sheet material
  Francesco Laccone, Luigi Malomo, Nico Pietroni, Paolo Cignoni, Tim Schork
  Structures, Volume 34 - December 2021
• A High Quality 3D Controller for Mobile and Desktop Web Applications
  Daniele Fornari, Luigi Malomo, Paolo Cignoni
  STAG: Smart Tools and Apps for Graphics - October 2021
• Computational design, fabrication and evaluation of rubber protein models
  Thomas Alderighi, Daniela Giorgi, Luigi Malomo, Paolo Cignoni, Monica Zoppè
  Computers & Graphics, Volume 98 - August 2021

2020

• Automated design and analysis of reinforced and post-tensioned glass shells
  Francesco Laccone, Luigi Malomo, Nico Pietroni, Maurizio Froli, Paolo Cignoni
  Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Volume 7 - September 2020
• A bending‑active twisted‑arch plywood structure: computational design and fabrication of the FlexMaps Pavilion
  Francesco Laccone, Luigi Malomo, Jesús Pérez, Nico Pietroni, Federico Ponchio, Bernd Bickel, Paolo Cignoni
  SN Applied Sciences, Volume 2 - August 2020
• Optimizing Object Decomposition to Reduce Visual Artifacts in 3D Printing
  Irene Filoscia, Thomas Alderighi, Daniela Giorgi, Luigi Malomo, Marco Callieri, Paolo Cignoni
  Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 39, Issue 2 - May 2020

2019

• Volume-Aware Design of Composite Molds
  Thomas Alderighi, Luigi Malomo, Daniela Giorgi, Bernd Bickel, Paolo Cignoni, Nico Pietroni
  ACM Trans. on Graphics - SIGGRAPH 2019, Volume 38, Issue 4 - July 2019
• Automatic Design of Cable-Tensioned Glass Shells
  Francesco Laccone, Luigi Malomo, Maurizio Froli, Paolo Cignoni, Nico Pietroni
  Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 39, Issue 1 - July 2019
• State of the Art on Stylized Fabrication
  Nico Pietroni, Bernd Bickel, Luigi Malomo, Paolo Cignoni
  SA '19: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 Courses - Article 118 - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. 2019
• Mill and fold: Shape simplification for fabrication
  Alessandro Muntoni, Stefano Nuvoli, Andreas Scalas, Alessandro Tola, Luigi Malomo, Riccardo Scateni
  Computer & Graphics, Volume 80 - May 2019
• FlexMaps Pavilion: a twisted arc made of mesostructured flat flexible panels
  Francesco Laccone, Luigi Malomo, Jesús Pérez, Nico Pietroni, Federico Ponchio, Bernd Bickel, Paolo Cignoni
  Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2019 - Structural Membranes 2019 - Form and Force - October 2019
• Concept and cable-tensioning optimization of post-tensioned shells made of structural glass
  Francesco Laccone, Luigi Malomo, Maurizio Froli, Paolo Cignoni, Nico Pietroni
  Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2019 - Structural Membranes 2019 - Form and Force - October 2019

2018

• FlexMaps: Computational Design of Flat Flexible Shells for Shaping 3D Objects
  Luigi Malomo, Jesús Pérez, Emmanuel Iarussi, Nico Pietroni, Eder Miguel, Paolo Cignoni, Bernd Bickel
  ACM Trans. on Graphics - SIGGRAPH Asia 2018, Volume 37, Issue 6 - November 2018
• Metamolds: Computational Design of Silicone Molds
  Thomas Alderighi, Luigi Malomo, Daniela Giorgi, Nico Pietroni, Bernd Bickel, Paolo Cignoni
  ACM Trans. on Graphics - SIGGRAPH 2018, Volume 37, Issue 4 - August 2018
• State of the Art on Stylized Fabrication
  Bernd Bickel, Paolo Cignoni, Luigi Malomo, Nico Pietroni
  Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 37, Issue 6, pages 325-342 - September 2018
• Reconstructing Power Lines from Images
  Fabio Ganovelli, Luigi Malomo, Roberto Scopigno
  2018 International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ) - November 2018
• The EMOTIVE Project - Emotive virtual cultural experiences through personalized storytelling
  Akrivi Katifori, Maria Roussou, Sara Perry, Paolo Cignoni, Luigi Malomo, Gianpaolo Palma, George Dretakis, Sebastien Vizcay
  Proceedings of the Workshop on Cultural Informatics Research and Applications, CIRA@EuroMed 2018 - November 2018

2017

• Enhancing Digital Fabrication with Advanced Modeling Techniques
  Luigi Malomo
  PhD Thesis - April 2017

2016

• FlexMolds: Automatic Design of Flexible Shells for Molding
  Luigi Malomo, Nico Pietroni, Bernd Bickel, Paolo Cignoni
  ACM Trans. on Graphics - SIGGRAPH Asia 2016, Volume 35, Issue 6, 12 pages - December 2016
• Generalized Trackball for Surfing Over Surfaces
  Luigi Malomo, Paolo Cignoni, Roberto Scopigno
  STAG: Smart Tools and Apps for Graphics - 2016

2015

• Digitizing and navigating unaccessible archaeological sites on mobile devices
  Luigi Malomo, Francesco Banterle, Paolo Pingi, Marco Callieri, Matteo Dellepiane, Roberto Scopigno
  1st International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology, page 43--48 - 2015
• VirtualTour: A System for Exploring Cultural Heritage Sites in an Immersive Way
  Luigi Malomo, Francesco Banterle, Paolo Pingi, Francesco Gabellone, Roberto Scopigno
  2015 Digital Heritage International Congress - Vol. 1 (Proc. of), Volume 1, page 309--312 - September 2015
• LecceAR: An Augmented Reality App
  Francesco Banterle, Franco Alberto Cardillo, Luigi Malomo, Paolo Pingi, Francesco Gabellone, Giuseppe Amato
  Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage — DiPP2015, page 99--108 - September 2015
  Best Paper Award
• Elastic Textures for Additive Fabrication
  Julian Panetta, Qingnan Zhou, Luigi Malomo, Nico Pietroni, Paolo Cignoni, Denis Zorin
  ACM Trans. on Graphics - SIGGRAPH 2015, Volume 34, Issue 4, 12 pages - August 2015
• Compression and Querying of Arbitrary Geodesic Distances
  Rosario Aiello, Francesco Banterle, Nico Pietroni, Luigi Malomo, Paolo Cignoni, Roberto Scopigno
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science - special issue of ICIAP 2015, Volume 9279, page 282--293 - August 2015
• Mesh Joinery: A Method for Building Fabricable Structures
  Paolo Cignoni, Nico Pietroni, Luigi Malomo, Roberto Scopigno
  ERCIM News, Number 101, page 44-45 - April 2015
• LecceAR: An Augmented Reality App for Cultural Heritage
  Francesco Banterle, Franco Alberto Cardillo, Luigi Malomo
  ERCIM News, Number 103, page 16-17 - October 2015

2014

• Web and Mobile Visualization for Cultural Heritage
  Marco Di Benedetto, Federico Ponchio, Luigi Malomo, Marco Callieri, Matteo Dellepiane, Paolo Cignoni, Roberto Scopigno
  Lecture Notes on Computer Science LNCS 8355, Springer, page 18-35 - 2014
• Field-aligned mesh joinery
  Paolo Cignoni, Nico Pietroni, Luigi Malomo, Roberto Scopigno
  ACM Trans. on Graphics, Volume 33, Issue 1. Article 11 (January 2014) 12 pages
  Presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2014

Education

• Ph.D in Computer Science from from Università di Pisa - Computer Science Department in 2017
• Laurea specialistica (MS) in "Tecnologie Informatiche" (IT) from Università di Pisa in 2012, with grade 110/110 Magna Cum Laude
• Laurea di primo livello (BS) in Computer Science from Università di Pisa in 2007, with grade 110/110 Magna Cum Laude

Software