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Making the Cut: Lattice Kirigami Rules

Soft Condensed Matter 2015-06-22 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science

Abstract

In this paper we explore and develop a simple set of rules that apply to cutting, pasting, and folding honeycomb lattices. We consider origami-like structures that are extinsically flat away from zero-dimensional sources of Gaussian curvature and one-dimensional sources of mean curvature, and our cutting and pasting rules maintain the intrinsic bond lengths on both the lattice and its dual lattice. We find that a small set of rules is allowed providing a framework for exploring and building kirigami -- folding, cutting, and pasting the edges of paper.

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@article{arxiv.1408.6480,
  title  = {Making the Cut: Lattice Kirigami Rules},
  author = {Toen Castle and Yigil Cho and Xingting Gong and Euiyeon Jung and Daniel M. Sussman and Shu Yang and Randall D. Kamien},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.6480},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

5 pages, 5 figures

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