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Rigid origami has shown potential in large diversity of practical applications. However, current rigid origami crease pattern design mostly relies on known tessellations. This strongly limits the diversity and novelty of patterns that can…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Jeremia Geiger , Karolis Martinkus , Oliver Richter , Roger Wattenhofer

Kirigami involves cutting a flat, thin sheet that allows it to morph from a closed, compact configuration into an open deployed structure via coordinated rotations of the internal tiles. By recognizing and generalizing the geometric…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-15 Gary P. T. Choi , Levi H. Dudte , L. Mahadevan

The idea behind universal coating is to have a thin layer of a specific substance covering an object of any shape so that one can measure a certain condition (like temperature or cracks) at any spot on the surface of the object without…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Zahra Derakhshandeh , Robert Gmyr , Andrea W. Richa , Christian Scheideler , Thim Strothmann

Origami is an ancient art that continues to yield both artistic and scientific insights to this day. In 2012, Buhler, Butler, de Launey, and Graham extended these ideas even further by developing a mathematical construction inspired by…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Deveena R. Banerjee , Sara Chari , Adriana Salerno

We find a closed-form expression for the Poisson's coefficient of curved-crease variants of the ``Miura ori'' origami tessellation. This is done by explicitly constructing a continuous one-parameter family of isometric piecewise-smooth…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-13 Asma Karami , Adam Reddy , Hussein Nassar

Four rigid panels connected by hinges that meet at a point form a 4-vertex, the fundamental building block of origami metamaterials. Here we show how the geometry of 4-vertices, given by the sector angles of each plate, affects their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-23 Scott Waitukaitis , Martin van Hecke

Origami, where two-dimensional sheets are folded into complex structures, is proving to be rich with combinatorial and geometric structure, most of which remains to be fully understood. In this paper we consider \emph{flat origami}, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-04 Alvin Chiu , William Hoganson , Thomas C. Hull , Sylvia Wu

We investigate the problem of assembling general shapes and patterns in a model in which particles move based on uniform external forces until they encounter an obstacle. While previous work within this model of assembly has focused on…

Origami inspired architectures offer a powerful route toward lightweight, reconfigurable, and programmable robotic systems. Yet, a unified mechanics framework capable of seamlessly bridging rigid folding, elastic deformation, and stability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bohan Zhang , Bo Wang , Huajiang Ouyang , Zhigang Wu , Haohao Bi , Jiawei Xu , Mingchao Liu , Weicheng Huang

Origami structures have been proposed as a means of creating three-dimensional structures from the micro- to the macroscale, and as a means of fabricating mechanical metamaterials. The design of such structures requires a deep understanding…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-29 M. Berry , M. E. Lee-Trimble , C. D. Santangelo

An origami manifold is a manifold equipped with a closed 2-form which is symplectic except on a hypersurface where it is like the pullback of a symplectic form by a folding map and its kernel fibrates with oriented circle fibers over a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-03 A. Cannas da Silva , V. Guillemin , A. R. Pires

Origami and kirigami have emerged as potential tools for the design of mechanical metamaterials whose properties such as curvature, Poisson ratio, and existence of metastable states can be tuned using purely geometric criteria. A major…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-31 Bryan Gin-ge Chen , Bin Liu , Arthur A. Evans , Jayson Paulose , Itai Cohen , Vincenzo Vitelli , C. D. Santangelo

Consider a curve $\Gamma$ in a domain $D$ in the plane $\boldsymbol R^2$. Thinking of $D$ as a piece of paper, one can make a curved folding $P$ in the Euclidean space $\boldsymbol R^3$. The singular set $C$ of $P$ as a space curve is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Atsufumi Honda , Kosuke Naokawa , Kentaro Saji , Masaaki Umehara , Kotaro Yamada

We develop an intrinsic necessary and sufficient condition for single-vertex origami crease patterns to be able to fold rigidly. We classify such patterns in the case where the creases are pre-assigned to be mountains and valleys as well as…

Folding a sequence $S$ into a multidimensional box is a method that is used to construct multidimensional codes. The well known operation of folding is generalized in a way that the sequence $S$ can be folded into various shapes. The new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-29 Tuvi Etzion

Kirigami is the art of cutting paper to make it articulated and deployable, allowing for it to be shaped into complex two and three-dimensional geometries. The mechanical response of a kirigami sheet when it is pulled at its ends is enabled…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Qing Han , Marta Lewicka , L. Mahadevan

Two-dimensional (2D) origami tessellations such as the Miura-ori are often generalized to build three-dimensional (3D) architected materials with sandwich or cellular structures. However, such 3D blocks are densely packed with continuity of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-02 Guowei Wayne Tu , Evgueni T. Filipov

We use a regular arrangement of kirigami elements to demonstrate an inverse design paradigm for folding a flat surface into complex target configurations. We first present a scheme using arrays of disclination defect pairs on the dual to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-02-17 Daniel M. Sussman , Yigil Cho , Toen Castle , Xingting Gong , Euiyeon Jung , Shu Yang , Randall D. Kamien

Self-folding origami, structures that are engineered flat to fold into targeted, three-dimensional shapes, have many potential engineering applications. Though significant effort in recent years has been devoted to designing fold patterns…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-25 M. E. Lee-Trimble , Ji-Hwan Kang , Ryan C. Hayward , Christian D. Santangelo

It is well known that the set of origami constructible numbers is larger than the classical straight-edge and compass constructible numbers. However, the Huzita-Justin-Hatori origami constructible numbers remain algebraic so that the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Michael Assis