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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

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

Kirigami metamaterials dramatically change their shape through a coordinated motion of nearly rigid panels and flexible slits. Here, we study a model system for mechanism-based planar kirigami featuring periodic patterns of quadrilateral…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-16 Yue Zheng , Imtiar Niloy , Ian Tobasco , Paolo Celli , Paul Plucinsky

Origami metamaterials typically consist of folded sheets with periodic patterns, conferring them with remarkable mechanical properties. In the context of Continuum Mechanics, the majority of existing predictive methods are mechanism analogs…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-22 Xuwen Li , Amin Jamalimehr , Mathias Legrand , Damiano Pasini

Mechanical metamaterials with complex microstructures have superior physical properties such as graded stiffness, negative Poisson's ratio, and advantage in energy absorption. In recent years, origami provide many inspirations in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-12-18 Yunfang Yang , Zhong You

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

Flat origami studies straight line, planar graphs $C=(V,E)$ drawn on a region $R\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ that can act as crease patterns to map, or fold, $R$ into $\mathbb{R}^2$ in a way that is continuous and a piecewise isometry exactly on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Thomas C. Hull , Manuel Morales , Sarah Nash , Natalya Ter-Saakov

Non-rigid origami patterns could provide more versatile performance than their rigid counterparts in the design of mechanical metamaterials owing to the simultaneous deformation of facets and creases, but their complex deformation modes…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-28 Shixi Zang , Jiayao Ma , Yan Chen

Origami metamaterial design enables drastic qualitative changes in the response properties of a thin sheet via the addition of a repeating pattern of folds based around a rigid folding motion. Known also as a mechanism, this folding motion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-20 Michael Czajkowski , James McInerney , Andrew M. Wu , D. Zeb Rocklin

Inspired by the allure of additive fabrication, we pose the problem of origami design from a new perspective: how can we grow a folded surface in three dimensions from a seed so that it is guaranteed to be isometric to the plane? We solve…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-19 Levi H. Dudte , Gary P. T. Choi , L. Mahadevan

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 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…

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

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

Periodic origami patterns made with repeating unit cells of creases and panels bend and twist in complex ways. In principle, such soft modes of deformation admit a simplified asymptotic description in the limit of a large number of cells.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-03 Hu Xu , Ian Tobasco , Paul Plucinsky

Origami and Kirigami, the famous Japanese art forms of paper folding and cutting, have inspired the design of novel materials & structures utilizing their geometry. In this article, we explore the geometry of the lesser known popup art,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jay Jayeshbhai Chavda , S Ganga Prasath

We characterize the phase-space of all Helical Miura Origami. These structures are obtained by taking a partially folded Miura parallelogram as the unit cell, applying a generic helical or rod group to the cell, and characterizing all the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-03-18 Fan Feng , Paul Plucinsky , Richard D. James

We propose a novel computational framework for modeling and simulating origami structures. In this framework, bilinear solid-shell elements are employed to model the origami panels while crease folding is considered through the angle…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Qixin Liang

Structures like galaxies and filaments of galaxies in the Universe come about from the origami-like folding of an initially flat three-dimensional manifold in 6D phase space. The ORIGAMI method identifies these structures in a cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Mark C. Neyrinck , Bridget L. Falck , Alex S. Szalay

This study proposes a reconfigurable modular building system that assembles multistable curved-crease origami blocks. Curved-crease origami is designed with even-vertex polygonal trajectories and an elastica curvature profile. We then…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Munkyun Lee , Joseph M. Gattas , Tomohiro Tachi