Paper by Erik D. Demaine

Reference:

Erik D. Demaine, Satyan L. Devadoss, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, and Joseph O'Rourke, “Continuous Foldability of Polygonal Paper”, in Proceedings of the 16th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG 2004), Montréal, Québec, Canada, August 9–11, 2004, pages 64–67.

Abstract:

We prove that any given well-behaved folded state of a piece of paper can be reached via a continuous folding process starting from the unfolded paper and ending with the folded state. The argument is an extension of that originally presented in [DM01].

Comments:

This paper is also available from the electronic proceedings as http://www.cs.concordia.ca/cccg/papers/55.pdf.

Length:

The paper is 4 pages.

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