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Flat-foldability problem of origami is the problem to determine whether a given crease pattern drawn on a piece of paper is possible to fold without any penetration or intrusion of a polygon into any connections among them. It is known from…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-06-17 Chihiro Nakajima

Lattices and their underlying symmetries play a central role in determining the physical properties and applications of many natural and engineered materials. By bridging the lattice geometry and rigid-folding kinematics, this study…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Hongbin Fang , Suyi Li , Manoj Thota , Kon-Well Wang

Twisting sheets as a strategy to form functional yarns relies on millennia of human practice in making catguts and fabric wearables, but still lacks overarching principles to guide their intricate architectures. We show that twisted…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-20 Julien Chopin , Arshad Kudrolli

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

Translating formal language into natural language is a foundational challenge in NLP, driving various downstream applications in semantic parsing, theorem validation, and question answering. In this study, we introduce First-Order Logic to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mei Jia

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

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…

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"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

Origami and kirigami have emerged as potential tools for the design of mechanical metamaterials whose properties such as curvature, Poisson ratio, and existence of metastable states can be tuned using purely geometric criteria. A major…

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This article is concerned with an example of complex planar geometry arising from flat origami challenges. The complexity of solution algorithms is illustrated, depending on the depth of the initial analysis of the problem, starting from…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-05-30 David Dureisseix

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

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…

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Soft deployable structures - unlike conventional piecewise rigid deployables based on hinges and springs - can assume intricate 3-D shapes, thereby enabling transformative technologies in soft robotics, shape-morphing architecture, and…

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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

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, 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

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

We introduce a computational origami problem which we call the segment folding problem: given a set of $n$ line-segments in the plane the aim is to make creases along all segments in the minimum number of folding steps. Note that a folding…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Takashi Horiyama , Fabian Klute , Matias Korman , Irene Parada , Ryuhei Uehara , Katsuhisa Yamanaka

The capacity of an embodied agent to understand, predict, and interact with its environment is fundamentally contingent on an internal world model. This paper introduces a novel framework for investigating the formation and adaptation of…

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