Folding Every Point on a Polygon Boundary to a Point
Abstract
We consider a problem in computational origami. Given a piece of paper as a convex polygon and a point located within, fold every point on a boundary of to and compute a region that is safe from folding, i.e., the region with no creases. This problem is an extended version of a problem by Akitaya, Ballinger, Demaine, Hull, and Schmidt~[CCCG'21] that only folds corners of the polygon. To find the region, we prove structural properties of intersections of parabola-bounded regions and use them to devise a linear-time algorithm. We also prove a structural result regarding the complexity of the safe region as a variable of the location of point , i.e., the number of arcs of the safe region can be determined using the straight skeleton of the polygon .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2305.01467,
title = {Folding Every Point on a Polygon Boundary to a Point},
author = {Nattawut Phetmak and Jittat Fakcharoenphol},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.01467},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
Preliminary results appeared in JCDCGGG'22