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Generalized D-Forms Have No Spurious Creases

Computational Geometry 2009-05-07 v2

Abstract

A convex surface that is flat everywhere but on finitely many smooth curves (or "seams") and points is a seam form. We show that the only creases through the flat components of a seam form are either between vertices or tangent to the seams. As corollaries we resolve open problems about certain special seam forms: the flat components of a D-form have no creases at all, and the flat component of a pita-form has at most one crease, between the seam's endpoints.

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@article{arxiv.0711.2605,
  title  = {Generalized D-Forms Have No Spurious Creases},
  author = {Gregory N. Price and Erik D. Demaine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.2605},
  year   = {2009}
}

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