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This paper addresses the problem of finding minimum forcing sets in origami. The origami material folds flat along straight lines called creases that can be labeled as mountains or valleys. A forcing set is a subset of creases that force…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Mirela Damian , Erik Demaine , Muriel Dulieu , Robin Flatland , Hella Hoffman , Thomas C. Hull , Jayson Lynch , Suneeta Ramaswami

We introduce the study of forcing sets in mathematical origami. The origami material folds flat along straight line segments called creases, each of which is assigned a folding direction of mountain or valley. A subset $F$ of creases is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Brad Ballinger , Mirela Damian , David Eppstein , Robin Flatland , Jessica Ginepro , Thomas Hull

In this paper, we study how to fold a specified origami crease pattern in order to minimize the impact of paper thickness. Specifically, origami designs are often expressed by a mountain-valley pattern (plane graph of creases with relative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Erik D. Demaine , David Eppstein , Adam Hesterberg , Hiro Ito , Anna Lubiw , Ryuhei Uehara , Yushi Uno

Rigid foldability allows an origami pattern to fold about crease lines without twisting or stretching component panels. It enables folding of rigid materials, facilitating the design of foldable structures. Recent study shows that rigid…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Huijuan Feng , Rui Peng , Shixi Zang , Jiayao Ma , Yan Chen

We survey results on the foldability of flat origami models. The main topics are the question of when a given crease pattern can fold flat, the combinatorics of mountain and valley creases, and counting how many ways a given crease pattern…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-04 Thomas C. Hull

A single-vertex origami is a piece of paper with straight-line rays called creases emanating from a fold vertex placed in its interior or on its boundary. The Single-Vertex Origami Flattening problem asks whether it is always possible to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-03-19 Gaiane Panina , Ileana Streinu

In this paper, we show that deciding rigid foldability of a given crease pattern using all creases is weakly NP-hard by a reduction from Partition, and that deciding rigid foldability with optional creases is strongly NP-hard by a reduction…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Hugo Akitaya , Erik D. Demaine , Takashi Horiyama , Thomas C. Hull , Jason S. Ku , Tomohiro Tachi

Rigid origami, with applications ranging from nano-robots to unfolding solar sails in space, describes when a material is folded along straight crease line segments while keeping the regions between the creases planar. Prior work has found…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Johnna Farnham , Thomas C. Hull , Aubrey Rumbolt

A foundational result in origami mathematics is Kawasaki and Justin's simple, efficient characterization of flat foldability for unassigned single-vertex crease patterns (where each crease can fold mountain or valley) on flat material. This…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Lily Chung , Erik D. Demaine , Dylan Hendrickson , Victor Luo

Rigidly and flat-foldable quadrilateral mesh origami is the class of quadrilateral mesh crease patterns with one fundamental property: the patterns can be folded from flat to fully-folded flat by a continuous one-parameter family of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-15 Fan Feng , Xiangxin Dang , Richard D. James , Paul Plucinsky

Rigid origami is examined from the perspective of rigidity theory. First and second order rigidity are defined from local differential analysis of the consistency constraint; while the static rigidity and prestress stability are defined…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Zeyuan He , Simon D. Guest

We prove several hardness results on folding origami crease patterns. Flat-folding finite crease patterns is fixed-parameter tractable in the ply of the folded pattern (how many layers overlap at any point) and the treewidth of an…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-21 David Eppstein

Origami structures are characterized by a network of folds and vertices joining unbendable plates. For applications to mechanical design and self-folding structures, it is essential to understand the interplay between the set of folds in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-01 Bryan Gin-ge Chen , Christian D. Santangelo

This paper deals with themes such as approximate counting/evaluation of the total number of flat-foldings for random origami diagrams, evaluation of the values averaged over various instances, obtaining forcing sets for general origami…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-06 Chihiro Nakajima

We prove that testing the flat foldability of an origami crease pattern (either labeled with mountain and valley folds, or unlabeled) is fixed-parameter tractable when parameterized by the ply of the flat-folded state and by the treewidth…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-22 David Eppstein

The use of origami in engineering has significantly expanded in recent years, spanning deployable structures across scales, folding robotics, and mechanical metamaterials. However, finding foldable paths can be a formidable task as the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-30 Matthew Grasinger , Andrew Gillman , Philip Buskohl

Flat-foldability problem of origami is the problem to determine whether a given crease pattern drawn on a piece of paper is possible to fold without any penetration or intrusion of a polygon into any connections among them. It is known from…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-06-17 Chihiro Nakajima

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

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

Lattices and their underlying symmetries play a central role in determining the physical properties and applications of many natural and engineered materials. By bridging the lattice geometry and rigid-folding kinematics, this study…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Hongbin Fang , Suyi Li , Manoj Thota , Kon-Well Wang
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