Flat Foldings of Plane Graphs with Prescribed Angles and Edge Lengths
Abstract
When can a plane graph with prescribed edge lengths and prescribed angles (from among \}) be folded flat to lie in an infinitesimally thin line, without crossings? This problem generalizes the classic theory of single-vertex flat origami with prescribed mountain-valley assignment, which corresponds to the case of a cycle graph. We characterize such flat-foldable plane graphs by two obviously necessary but also sufficient conditions, proving a conjecture made in 2001: the angles at each vertex should sum to , and every face of the graph must itself be flat foldable. This characterization leads to a linear-time algorithm for testing flat foldability of plane graphs with prescribed edge lengths and angles, and a polynomial-time algorithm for counting the number of distinct folded states.
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@article{arxiv.1408.6771,
title = {Flat Foldings of Plane Graphs with Prescribed Angles and Edge Lengths},
author = {Zachary Abel and Erik D. Demaine and Martin L. Demaine and David Eppstein and Anna Lubiw and Ryuhei Uehara},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.6771},
year = {2018}
}
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21 pages, 10 figures