Flattening single-vertex origami: the non-expansive case

  • Authors:
  • Gaiane Panina;Ileana Streinu

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Informatics and Automation,V.O. 14 line 39, 199178, StPetersburg, Russian Fed.;Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual symposium on Computational geometry
  • Year:
  • 2009
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Abstract

A single-vertex origami is a piece of paper with straight-line rays called creases emanating from a fold vertex placed in its interior or on its boundary. The Single-Vertex Origami Problem asks whether it is always possible to reconfigure the creased paper from any configuration compatible with the metric, to a flat position, in such a way that the paper is not torn, stretched and, for rigid origami, not bent anywhere except along the given creases. Streinu and Whiteley showed how to reduce the single-vertex origami problem to the Carpenter's Rule Problem for spherical polygons. Using spherical expansive motions, they solved the cases of open