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Unfolding Manhattan Towers

Computational Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We provide an algorithm for unfolding the surface of any orthogonal polyhedron that falls into a particular shape class we call Manhattan Towers, to a nonoverlapping planar orthogonal polygon. The algorithm cuts along edges of a 4x5x1 refinement of the vertex grid.

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@article{arxiv.0705.1541,
  title  = {Unfolding Manhattan Towers},
  author = {Mirela Damian and Robin Flatland and Joseph O'Rourke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.1541},
  year   = {2007}
}
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