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Origami as a deployable structure offers the unique advantage of achieving compact stowage via flat-folding while forming a well-defined surface composed of rigid panels upon deployment. However, since origami consists of flat facets, it is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-27 Byoung-Gyu Kim , Geon Hee Cho , Hak-Tae Lee , Jinkyu Yang

Define the augmented square twist origami crease pattern to be the classic square twist crease pattern with one crease added along a diagonal of the twisted square. In this paper we fully describe the rigid foldability of this new crease…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-14 Thomas C. Hull , Michael T. Urbanski

Propagating transition fronts, in which local interactions sequentially trigger state changes, are widely observed across natural, biological, and engineered systems. While such propagation has been engineered using energy-driven…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Rinki Imada , Tomohiro Tachi

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

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

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

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

We study the problem of deciding whether a crease pattern can be folded by simple folds (folding along one line at a time) under the infinite all-layers model introduced by [Akitaya et al., 2017], in which each simple fold is defined by an…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Hugo A. Akitaya , Cordelia Avery , Joseph Bergeron , Erik D. Demaine , Justin Kopinsky , Jason Ku

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

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

We find a closed-form expression for the Poisson's coefficient of curved-crease variants of the ``Miura ori'' origami tessellation. This is done by explicitly constructing a continuous one-parameter family of isometric piecewise-smooth…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-13 Asma Karami , Adam Reddy , Hussein Nassar

Origami morphing, obtained with patches of piecewise smooth isometries separated by straight fold lines, is an exquisite art that has already received considerable attention in the mathematics and mechanics literature. Curved fold lines,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-25 Antonio DeSimone , Luciano Teresi

In this paper, we will show methods to interpret some rigid origami with higher degree vertices as the limit case of structures with degree-4 supplementary angle vertices. The interpretation is based on separating each crease into two…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Thomas C. Hull , Tomohiro Tachi

We consider tilings of a closed region of the Kagome lattice (partition of the plane into regular hexagons and equilateral triangles such that each edge is shared by one triangle and one hexagon). We are interested in the rate of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Alexandra Ugolnikova

This paper shows a cut along a crease on an origami sheet makes simple modeling of popular traditional basic folds such as a squash fold in computational origami. The cut operation can be applied to other classical folds and significantly…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Tetsuo Ida , Hidekazu Takahashi

Two-dimensional (2D) origami tessellations such as the Miura-ori are often generalized to build three-dimensional (3D) architected materials with sandwich or cellular structures. However, such 3D blocks are densely packed with continuity of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-02 Guowei Wayne Tu , Evgueni T. Filipov

It has been known since 1996 that deciding whether a collection of creases on a piece of paper can be fully folded flat without causing self-intersection or adding new creases is an NP-Hard problem (Bern and Hayes). In their proof, a binary…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Michael Assis

Origami-based design holds promise for developing materials whose mechanical properties are tuned by crease patterns introduced to thin sheets. Although there has been heuristic developments in constructing patterns with desirable…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-08-05 Arthur A. Evans , Jesse L. Silverberg , Christian D. Santangelo

Shape-morphing finds widespread utility, from the deployment of small stents and large solar sails to actuation and propulsion in soft robotics. Origami structures provide a template for shape-morphing, but rules for designing and folding…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-25 Xiangxin Dang , Fan Feng , Paul Plucinsky , Richard D. James , Huiling Duan , Jianxiang Wang

Origami is the art of folding paper into various patterns without cutting or tearing the paper. By viewing the paper as the complex plane, we iteratively compute and record all intersection points to construct mathematical origami sets.…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Sara Chari , Andrew Quinn Macauley