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Efficient Segment Folding is Hard

Computational Geometry 2022-01-17 v3

Abstract

We introduce a computational origami problem which we call the segment folding problem: given a set of nn line-segments in the plane the aim is to make creases along all segments in the minimum number of folding steps. Note that a folding might alter the relative position between the segments, and a segment could split into two. We show that it is NP-hard to determine whether nn line segments can be folded in nn simple folding operations.

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@article{arxiv.2012.11062,
  title  = {Efficient Segment Folding is Hard},
  author = {Takashi Horiyama and Fabian Klute and Matias Korman and Irene Parada and Ryuhei Uehara and Katsuhisa Yamanaka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.11062},
  year   = {2022}
}