Bumpy pyramid folding
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Abel, Zachary Ryan; Demaine, Erik D.; Demaine, Martin L.; Ito, Hiro; Snoeyink, Jack; Uehara, Ryuhei; ... Show more Show less
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We investigate folding problems for a class of petal polygons P, which have an n-polygonal base B surrounded by a sequence of triangles. We give linear time algorithms using constant precision to determine if P can fold to a pyramid with flat base B, and to determine a triangulation of B (crease pattern) that allows folding into a convex (triangulated) polyhedron. By Alexandrov’s theorem, the crease pattern is unique if it exists, but the general algorithm known for this theorem is pseudo-polynomial, with very large running time; ours is the first efficient algorithm for Alexandrov’s theorem for a special class of polyhedra. We also give a polynomial time algorithm that finds the crease pattern to produce the maximum volume triangulated polyhedron.
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2014-08Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of MathematicsJournal
Proceedings of the 26th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry
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Abel, Zachary R., Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Hiro Ito, Jack Snoeyink, Ryuhei Uehara. "Bumpy pyramid folding." 26th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (August 2014).
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