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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

Given an origami crease pattern $C=(V,E)$, a straight-line planar graph embedded in a region of $\mathbb{R}^2$, we assign each crease to be either a mountain crease (which bends convexly) or a valley crease (which bends concavely), creating…

We develop a theory of random flat-foldable origami. Given a crease pattern, we consider a uniformly random assignment of mountain and valley creases, conditioned on the assignment being flat-foldable at each vertex. A natural method to…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Thomas C. Hull , Marcus Michelen , Corrine Yap

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 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 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

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

We develop a combinatorial model of paperfolding for the purposes of enumeration. A planar embedding of a graph is called a {\em crease pattern} if it represents the crease lines needed to fold a piece of paper into something. A {\em flat…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Thomas C. Hull

We explore the following problem: given a collection of creases on a piece of paper, each assigned a folding direction of mountain or valley, is there a flat folding by a sequence of simple folds? There are several models of simple folds;…

Origami has shown the potential to approximate three-dimensional curved surfaces by folding through designed crease patterns on flat materials. The Miura-ori tessellation is a widely used pattern in engineering and tiles the plane when…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Yucai Hu , Yexin Zhou , Haiyi Liang

Consider an oriented 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 in the Euclidean space $\boldsymbol R^3$. This can be expressed as the image of an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Atsufumi Honda , Kosuke Naokawa , Kentaro Saji , Masaaki Umehara , Kotaro Yamada

"Flat origami" refers to the folding of flat, zero-curvature paper such that the finished object lies in a plane. Mathematically, flat origami consists of a continuous, piecewise isometric map $f:P\subseteq\mathbb{R}^2\to\mathbb{R}^2$ along…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Thomas C. Hull , Inna Zakharevich

We map the problem of determining flat-foldability of the origami diagram onto the ground-state search problem of spin glass model on random graphs. If the origami diagram is locally flat-foldable around each vertex, a pre-folded diagram,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-01 Chihiro Nakajima

We survey more recent attempts at enumerating the number of mountain-valley assignments that allow a given crease pattern to locally fold flat. In particular, we solve this problem for square twist tessellations and generalize the method…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-14 Thomas C. Hull

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

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

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 consider several quadrilateral origami tilings, including the Miura-ori crease pattern, allowing for crease-reversal defects above the ground state which maintain local flat-foldability. Using exactly solvable models, we show that these…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Michael Assis
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