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Origami crease patterns are folding paths that transform flat sheets into spatial objects. Origami patterns with a single degree of freedom (DOF) have creases that fold simultaneously. More often, several substeps are required to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Yucai Hu , Haiyi Liang

Origami, which transforms flat sheets into three-dimensional shapes through folding patterns, has inspired the emergence of deployable systems in architecture and civil realms. Most existing origami-inspired deployable systems are based on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-19 Munkyun Lee

Origami is the archetype of a structural material with unusual mechanical properties that arise almost exclusively from the geometry of its constituent folds and forms the basis for mechanical metamaterials with an extreme deformation…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-11-26 Zhiyan Wei , Zengcai Guo , Levi Dudte , Haiyi Liang , L. Mahadevan

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

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

Origami designs and structures have been widely used in many fields, such as morphing structures, robotics, and metamaterials. However, the design and fabrication of origami structures rely on human experiences and skills, which are both…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Peiwen Yang , Shuguang Li

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

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, the traditional art of paper folding, has revolutionized science and technology in recent years and has been found useful in various real-world applications. In particular, origami-inspired structures have been utilized for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-19 Rongxuan Li , Gary P. T. Choi

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

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

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

We investigate the graphs formed from the vertices and creases of an origami pattern that can be folded flat along all of its creases. As we show, this is possible for a tree if and only if the internal vertices of the tree all have even…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-07-16 David Eppstein

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, the traditional paper-folding art, has inspired the modern design of numerous flexible structures in science and engineering. In particular, origami structures with different physical properties have been studied and utilized for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-24 Rongxuan Li , Gary P. T. Choi

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

Origami structures, particularly Miura-ori patterns, offer unique capabilities for surface approximation and deployable designs. In this study, a constrained mapping optimization algorithm is designed for designing surface-aligned Miura-ori…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Ka Ho Lai , Hei Tung Tsang , Gary P. T. Choi , Lok Ming Lui

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

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

The geometric, aesthetic, and mathematical elegance of origami is being recognized as a powerful pathway to self-assembly of micro and nano-scale machines with programmable mechanical properties. The typical approach to designing the…