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An origami Universal Turing Machine design

Computational Complexity 2024-06-25 v2

Abstract

It has been known since 1996 that deciding whether a collection of creases on a piece of paper can be fully folded flat without causing self-intersection or adding new creases is an NP-Hard problem (Bern and Hayes). In their proof, a binary state was implemented as a pleat, with the state corresponding to the pleat layering order; states then interact via pleat intersections. Building on some of the machinery of their result, we will present a method for constructing an origami NAND logic gate, leading to a theoretical origami Universal Turing Machine.

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@article{arxiv.2406.08490,
  title  = {An origami Universal Turing Machine design},
  author = {Michael Assis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.08490},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Submitted to the Proceedings of 8OSME

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