Origaminator III

Devin Balkcom

Abstract

Robotic origami. I'll present some fun and famous theorems about flat origami, and give simple proofs. I'll describe a simple class of human-foldable origami, 'Pureland origami' that was developed for handicapped children, and I'll describe an even simpler class of origami I developed for my robot. I'll present a complete planner for 'simply foldable' origami, and describe a necessary condition for an origami pattern to be simply foldable. There will be a movie of the robot folding origami. I'll talk a bit about spherical closed chains and crease networks, and demonstrate why it is impossible to fold a shopping bag. All questions about topology will be deferred until my next talk.

 

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