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Folding Every Point on a Polygon Boundary to a Point

Computational Geometry 2023-05-03 v1

Abstract

We consider a problem in computational origami. Given a piece of paper as a convex polygon PP and a point ff located within, fold every point on a boundary of PP to ff 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 ff, i.e., the number of arcs of the safe region can be determined using the straight skeleton of the polygon PP.

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@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

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