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As the environment harbouring the majority of galaxies, filaments are thought to play a key role in the co-evolution of galaxies and the cosmic web. In this first part of a series to understand the link between galaxies and filaments…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-15 Yannick M. Bahe , Pascale Jablonka

The ancient art of origami, traditionally used to transform simple sheets into intricate objects, also holds potential for diverse engineering applications, such as shape morphing and robotics. In this study, we demonstrate that one of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Davood Farhadi , Laura Pernigoni , David Melancon , Katia Bertoldi

In this review we discuss several aspects of Cosmic Voids. Voids are a major component of the large scale distribution of matter and galaxies in the Universe. They are of instrumental importance for understanding the emergence of the Cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rien van de Weygaert , Erwin Platen

We develop a theoretical framework for rigid origami, and show how this framework can be used to connect rigid origami and results from cognate areas, such as the rigidity theory, graph theory, linkage folding and computer science. First,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Zeyuan He , Simon D. Guest

Miura-Ori, a celebrated origami pattern that facilitates functionality in matter, has found multiple applications in the field of mechanical metamaterials. Modifications of Miura-Ori pattern can produce curved configurations during folding,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-20 Alon Sardas , Michael Moshe , Cy Maor

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

The field of rigid origami concerns the folding of stiff, inelastic plates of material along crease lines that act like hinges and form a straight-line planar graph, called the crease pattern of the origami. Crease pattern vertices in the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Thomas C. Hull

Observations of weak gravitational lensing combined with statistical tomographic techniques have revealed that galaxies have formed along filaments, essentially one-dimensional lines or strings, which form sheets and voids. These have, in…

General Physics · Physics 2011-04-12 Reginald T. Cahill

The art and science of folding intricate three-dimensional structures out of paper has occupied artists, designers, engineers, and mathematicians for decades, culminating in the design of deployable structures and mechanical metamaterials.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 Friedrich Bös , Etienne Vouga , Omer Gottesman , Max Wardetzky

Using computer simulations we study the geometry of a typical quantum universe, i.e. the geometry one might expect before a possible period of inflation. We display it using coordinates defined by means of four classical scalar fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-01 J. Ambjorn , Z. Drogosz , J. Gizbert-Studnicki , A. Görlich , J. Jurkiewicz , D. Németh

Folding paper along curves leads to spatial structures that have curved surfaces meeting at spatial creases, defined as curve-fold origami. In this work, we provide an Eulerian framework focusing on the mechanics of arbitrary curve-fold…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-16 Zhixuan Wen , Pengyu Lv , Fan Feng , Huiling Duan

Previous studies using numerical simulations have demonstrated that the shape of the cosmic web can be described by studying the Lagrangian displacement field. We extend these analyses, showing that it is now possible to perform a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Florent Leclercq , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux , Benjamin Wandelt , Will Percival

Understanding galaxy properties may be the key to unlocking some of the most intriguing mysteries of modern cosmology. Recent work relied on machine learning to extract cosmological constraints on $\Omega_\mathrm{m}$ using only one galaxy.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-30 Bonny Y. Wang , Alice Pisani

In a cold-dark-matter universe, cosmological structure formation proceeds in rough analogy to origami folding. Dark matter occupies a three-dimensional 'sheet' of free- fall observers, non-intersecting in six-dimensional velocity-position…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-17 Mark C. Neyrinck

The cosmic web that characterizes the large-scale structure of the Universe can be quantified by a variety of methods. For example, large redshift surveys can be used in combination with point process algorithms to extract long curvilinear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Noam I. Libeskind , Elmo Tempel , Yehuda Hoffman , R. Brent Tully , Helene Courtois

Origami-based design holds promise for developing materials whose mechanical properties are tuned by crease patterns introduced to thin sheets. Although there has been heuristic developments in constructing patterns with desirable…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-08-05 Arthur A. Evans , Jesse L. Silverberg , Christian 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

Cosmic voids are key elements in our understanding of the large-scale structure of the Universe. They are crucial to constrain cosmological parameters, understand the structure formation and evolution of our Universe, and they could also be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Óscar Monllor-Berbegal , David Vallés-Pérez , Susana Planelles , Vicent Quilis

We explore the surprisingly rich energy landscape of origami-like folding planar structures. We show that the configuration space of rigid-paneled degree-4 vertices, the simplest building blocks of such systems, consists of at least two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-26 Scott Waitukaitis , Rémi Menaut , Bryan Gin-ge Chen , Martin van Hecke

Origami morphing, obtained with patches of piecewise smooth isometries separated by straight fold lines, is an exquisite art that has already received considerable attention in the mathematics and mechanics literature. Curved fold lines,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-25 Antonio DeSimone , Luciano Teresi