Curved folding

  • Authors:
  • Martin Kilian;Simon Flöry;Zhonggui Chen;Niloy J. Mitra;Alla Sheffer;Helmut Pottmann

  • Affiliations:
  • TU Vienna, Evolute;TU Vienna, Evolute;TU Vienna, Zhejiang University;IIT Delhi;UBC;TU Vienna

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 papers
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Fascinating and elegant shapes may be folded from a single planar sheet of material without stretching, tearing or cutting, if one incorporates curved folds into the design. We present an optimization-based computational framework for design and digital reconstruction of surfaces which can be produced by curved folding. Our work not only contributes to applications in architecture and industrial design, but it also provides a new way to study the complex and largely unexplored phenomena arising in curved folding.