Design and simulation of origami structures with smooth folds.

ABSTRACT: Origami has enabled new approaches to the fabrication and functionality of multiple structures. Current methods for origami design are restricted to the idealization of folds as creases of zeroth-order geometric continuity. Such an idealization is not proper for origami structures of non-negligible fold thickness or maximum curvature at the folds restricted by material limitations. For such structures, folds are not properly represented as creases but rather as bent regions of higher-order geometric continuity. Such fold regions of arbitrary order of continuity are termed as smooth folds. This paper presents a method for solving the following origami design problem: given a goal shape represented as a polygonal mesh (termed as the goal mesh), find the geometry of a single pla

SUBMITTER: Peraza Hernandez EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5415682 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature