Laser Cooking

- state of the art -

29th, July, 2011

Sketching in Hardware 2011

JO Kazuhiro (jo@jp.org)
Art Media Center, Tokyo University of the Arts

Art Media Center, Tokyo University of the Arts

Art Media Center:
Common facility for computation in the university with Lecture rooms,
Server room with network service, Atelier with recording studio and
fabrication space

Tokyo University of the Arts:

The only National University of the Arts in Japan with Fine Arts, Music,
and Film and New Media departments/graduate schools with 3,247
students and 222 faculties

Sta:
Director - FUJIHATA Masaki
Assistant Professor - JO Kazuhiro, KAMURA Tetsuro, KASHIWAZAKI Hiroki
Research Assistant - TAKAO Shunsuke, MITSUDA Ayumi, CAO Chenrang

Classes
Provide a series of theoretical and practical
classes on computation and arts
Theoretical classes:
Information Art, Interaction Design, Electronic Music, Media Literacy,
Series of guest lectures with invited practitioners

Practical classes:
Studio recording, Physical Computing, 3D graphics (rhino and
grasshopper), CAD, Motion graphics, Film making, DTP design, Web

design, Graphics programming (processing and openFrameworks), Sound

programming (PD), Mobile computing (iOS development),
Material Representation (Electricity, Biology, Computation)

Rent tools
Rent qualitative, unique tools for students and
faculties for their practices
e.g.
Digital SLR Camera (Canon EOD 5D)
DSD Handy audio recorder (KORG MR-2)
Full HD Plasma Display (Panasonic TH-42PF20)
Radiation Monitor (RAE systems DoesRAE2 PRM-1200

Atelier
Cover from DTP (publishing) through DTM (music) and DTV (video) to
DTF (fabrication) with related tools and software

Tools:
DTP - Large size printer (EPSON MAXART PX-H10000), Book scanner
(ATIZ BookDrive pro) , etc.

DTM - Recording studio (Focusrite RED, AKG 414B, Genelec 1030A,

Technics SL-1200MK6, YAMAHA C108, etc.)
DTV - HDV/DVCAM (SONY HVR-M15A), Monitor (SONY LMD-1750W),
Blu-ray recorder (Logitech BDR-205), etc.
DTF - Laser cutter (Epilog mini 24) , Soldering station, 3D printer (PP3D
UP!), Cutting machine (Craft Robo Pro), etc.

Laser Cutter (Epilog mini 24)

Installed in October, 2010
Power: 50w
Table size: 24 x 12 inch
Applications: From Architecture, Design through
Sculpture, Oil painting to Crafts

RADEN (Mother-of-Pearl work), SAIKI Tetsushi

Photo by TAKAO Shunsuke

Architecture: (empty books) -the figure and shape of the spaceMIZUNO Yuichiro (2011)

Collection of eleven books to read the gure and shape of the space

Making a series of layer from three dimensional space, and cutting each layer
individually as a page

The grand prize at Tokyo Architecture Collection 2011 for graduation work
Jury - ITO Toyoo, OONO Hidetoshi, TEDUKA Takaharu, HASEGAWA Itsuko, FURUYA Seisyo,
YAMAMOTO Riken, ROKUSIKA Masaharu

MIZUNO Yuichiro (2011)

MIZUNO Yuichiro (2011)

MIZUNO Yuichiro (2011)

Architecture: Boiled structure from a projected 3d image on a plane figure

NAGATA Yasuhiro (2011)

Photograph:

Driftwood surface on white acrylic

YAMADA Sanae (2010)

Photo by TAKAO Shunsuke

Photograph:

Aerial photo from google map on wood surface

YAMADA Sanae (2010)

Photo by TAKAO Shunsuke

Laser cooking
Explore the potential of laser cutter as a high
precision heating tool for cooking
Collaboration with
FUKUCHI Kentaro, TOMIYAMA Akifumi (Meiji University)
TAKAO Shunsuke, NAGATA Yashuhiro (Tokyo University of the Arts)

Photo by TAKAO Shunsuke

Very brief history of cooking

Start with catching re

(Wrangham, 2010)

Diverse tools and techniques are invented (Symons, 2004)

Scientic and computational approach are also
explored e.g. Molecular Gastronomy (This, 2005),
Modernist Cuisine (Myhrvold et al, 2011)

Laser cooking
Investigate novel technique for incoming tastes
and textures with fabricational technology
Laser cutter: Great pinpoint cooking device for
dry-heating
Fukuchi, K., Jo, K., "Laser Cooking: an Automated Cooking Technique
using Laser Cutter", TEI'11 Work-in-Progress Workshop Proceedings ,
2011.1

Photo by TAKAO Shunsuke

Laser
cooking
Laser Cooking: Eatable Instruction
Print folding procedure of raw spring roll on rice paper

Explore the potential of laser cutter as a heating

tool for cooking
Collaboration with
FUKUCHI Kentaro, TOMIYAMA Akifumi (Meiji University)
TAKAO Shunsuke, NAGATA Yashuhiro (Tokyo University of the Arts)

Laser Cooking: QR rice cake

Marking QR code (recognizable!) on rice cake

Laser Cooking: Reversal Bacon

Reducing fatty part of bacon by making heat map with computer vision

2 : Laser Cooker :
ig. 2 Left: an image from Laser Cookers camera. Right: a heat map generated from the camera
image (scaled).

Laser Cooking: Icing Sugar Forming

Produce high resolution three dimensional form from icing sugar
with Selective Laser Melting (SLM) technique

Photo by TAKAO Shunsuke

Related Work: CandyFab [Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories]

Granulated sugar based 3D printer using SHASAM(Selective Hot Air Sintering
And Melting) technique

Related Work: SOLAR SINTER (Kayser, 2011)

Sand and solar power based 3D printer

Testing Icing Sugar:

Granulated, Granulated with cornstarch, and

Brown sugar with several speed and power settings

Trial:

Aspiration:

T&CO. 2011

Other forms

Current stage: creating two dimensional vector

layers from three dimensional surface

Created by NAGATA Yasuhiro

Summary
Introduction of Art Media Center, Tokyo University of the Arts
Applications of Laser Cutter with students works
Brief history of Cooking
Laser Cooking
- Eatable Instruction
- QR rice cake
- Reversal Bacon
- Icing Sugar Foming

Thanks !
JO Kazuhiro (jo@jp.org)