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On Rigid Origami II: Quadrilateral Creased Papers

Metric Geometry 2020-04-09 v4 Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

Miura-ori is well-known for its capability of flatly folding a sheet of paper through a tessellated crease pattern made of repeating parallelograms. Many potential applications have been based on the Miura-ori and its primary variations. Here we are considering how to generalize the Miura-ori: what is the collection of rigid-foldable creased papers with a similar quadrilateral crease pattern as the Miura-ori? This paper reports some progress. We find some new variations of Miura-ori with less symmetry than the known rigid-foldable quadrilateral meshes. They are not necessarily developable or flat-foldable, and still only have single degree of freedom in their rigid folding motion. This article presents a classification of the new variations we discovered and explains the methods in detail.

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@article{arxiv.1804.06483,
  title  = {On Rigid Origami II: Quadrilateral Creased Papers},
  author = {Zeyuan He and Simon D. Guest},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.06483},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Main text 24 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, Supplementary Material 13 pages, 2 figures; submitted to the Proceedings of the Royal Society A, in minor revision