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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

Circle packings are arrangement of circles satisfying specified tangency requirements. Many problems about packing of circles and spheres occur in nature particularly in material design and protein structure. Surprisingly, little is known…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Robert Connelly , Zhen Zhang

Thin sheets can be assembled into tubular origami structures that combine deployability with pronounced anisotropic stiffness, enabling applications ranging from robotics to deployable systems. However, most existing tubular origami designs…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Mingkai Zhang , Davood Farhadi

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

Traditional origami structures can be continuously deformed back to a flat sheet of paper, while traditional kirigami requires glue or seams in order to maintain its rigidity. In the former, non-trivial geometry can be created through…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-29 Xinyu Wang , Simon D. Guest , Randall D. Kamien

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

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

We present a systematic approach for constructing bar frameworks that are rigid but not first-order rigid, using constrained optimization. We show that prestress stable (but not first-order rigid) frameworks arise as the solution to a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Xuenan Li , Christian D. Santangelo , Miranda Holmes-Cerfon

In this paper, we revisit the notion of higher-order rigidity of a bar-and-joint framework. In particular, we provide a link between the rigidity properties of a framework, and the growth order of an energy function defined on that…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Steven J. Gortler , Miranda Holmes-Cerfon , Louis Theran

Rigid origami is a branch of origami with great potential in engineering applications to deal with rigid-panel folding. One of the challenges is to compactly fold the polyhedra made from rigid facets with a single degree of freedom. In this…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-05-15 Yuanqing Gu , Yan Chen

We study possibilities for semantic and syntactic rigidity, i.e., the rigidity with respect to automorphism group and with respect to definable closure. Variations of rigidity and their degrees are studied in general case, for special…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Sergey V. Sudoplatov

This study explores the use of origami composite structures as active aerodynamic control surfaces. Towards this goal, two origami concepts were designed leveraging a combination of analytical and finite element modeling, and computational…

The principles of origami design have proven useful in a number of technological applications. Origami tessellations in particular constitute a class of morphing metamaterials with unusual geometric and elastic properties. Although…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-19 Hussein Nassar , Arthur Lebée , Emily Werner

This is the second paper devoted to energetic rigidity, in which we apply our formalism to examples in two dimensions: underconstrained random regular spring networks, vertex models, and jammed packings of soft particles. Spring networks…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-15 Ojan Khatib Damavandi , Varda F. Hagh , Christian D. Santangelo , M. Lisa Manning

Following on Part I of this work series on local kirigami mechanics, we present a study of a discretely creased mechanism as a model to investigate the mechanics of the basic geometric building block of kirigami--the e-cone. We consider an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-14 Souhayl Sadik , Martin G. Walker , Marcelo A. Dias

It is well-known that the Kresling pattern of congruent triangles can be arranged either circularly on a cylinder of revolution or in a helical way. In both cases the resulting cylindrical structures are multi-stable. We generalize these…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Georg Nawratil

Controlling the connectivity and rigidity of kirigami, i.e. the process of cutting paper to deploy it into an articulated system, is critical in the manifestations of kirigami in art, science and technology, as it provides the resulting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-31 Gary P. T. Choi , Lucy Liu , L. Mahadevan

Origami structures have been receiving a lot of attention from engineering and scientific researchers owing to their unique properties such as deployability, multi-stability, negative stiffness, etc. However, dynamic properties of origami…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-06 Sudheendra Herkal , Satish Nagarajaiah , Glaucio Paulino

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

Origami offers a versatile framework for designing morphable structures and soft robots by exploiting the geometry of folds. Tubular origami structures can act as continuum manipulators that balance flexibility and strength. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Aida Parvaresh , Arman Goshtasbi , Jonathan Andres Tirado Rosero , Ahmad Rafsanjani