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6 - Multiple-Vertex Flat Folds: Global Properties

from Part II - The Combinatorial Geometry of Flat Origami

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2020

Thomas C. Hull
Affiliation:
Western New England University
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Summary

Chapter 6 covers global flat foldability.This includes determining how we can tell if a crease pattern with multiple vertices will fold flat without forcing the paper to self-intersect, as well as discovering properties that all such crease patterns have, beyond what was covered in the previous chapter.Justin’s Theorem, which is a generalization of Kawasaki’s and Maekawa’s Theorems and whose proof uses elements of basic knot theory, is covered, as are Justin’s non-crossing conditions that provide necessary and sufficient conditions for a general crease pattern to fold flat.The matrix model from Chapter 5 is developed further to create a formal folding map for flat origami.Finally, Bern and Hayes’ seminal proof that determining flat foldability of a given crease pattern is NP-Hard is presented and updated with more recent results on box pleating.

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Origametry
Mathematical Methods in Paper Folding
, pp. 107 - 136
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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