Paper by Erik D. Demaine

Reference:
Erik D. Demaine and Joseph S. B. Mitchell, “Reaching Folded States of a Rectangular Piece of Paper”, in Proceedings of the 13th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG 2001), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, August 13–15, 2001, pages 73–75.

Abstract:
We prove that any folded state of a rectangular piece of paper (a continuous isometric non-self-intersecting mapping of the paper into space) can be reached by a continuous folding process, starting from the unfolded state, while at all times being a valid folding. In our model, the paper cannot properly cross itself, but can touch itself, as in a flat folding.

Comments:
This paper is also available from the electronic proceedings as http://compgeo.math.uwaterloo.ca/~cccg01/proceedings/short/eddemaine-33029.ps.gz.

Photos of Victoria Hart folding a crane by our algorithm

Length:
The paper is 3 pages.

Availability:
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Related papers:
PaperReachability_CCCG2004 (Continuous Foldability of Polygonal Paper)

Related webpages:
Folding and Unfolding


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Last updated March 12, 2024 by Erik Demaine.