Origami fold as algebraic graph rewriting

  • Authors:
  • Tetsuo Ida;Hidekazu Takahashi

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan;University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We formalize paper fold (origami) by graph rewriting. Origami construction is abstractly described by a rewriting system (O, ↬), where O is the set of abstract origami's and ↬ is a binary relation on O, called fold. An abstract origami is a triplet (Π, ∽, ≻), where Π is a set of faces constituting an origami, and ≻ and are binary relations on Π, each representing adjacency and superposition relations between the faces. We then address representation and transformation of abstract origami's and further reasoning about the construction for computational purposes. We present a hypergraph of origami and define origami fold as algebraic graph transformation. The algebraic graph-theoretic formalism enables us to reason about origami in two separate domains of discourse, i.e. pure combinatoric domain and geometric domain R x R, and thus helps us to further tackle challenging problems in computational origami research.