Developable Surfaces with Curved Creases
Martin Kilian, Simon Floery, Zhonggui Chen, Niloy J. Mitra, Alla Sheffer, Helmut Pottmann
Advances in Architectural Geometry 2008

Abstract:

Fascinating and elegant shapes may be folded from a single planar sheet of material without stretching, tearing or cutting, if one incorporates curved folds into the design. We present an optimizationbased computational framework for design and digital reconstruction of surfaces which can be produced by curved folding. Our work not only contributes to applications in architecture and industrial design, but it also provides a new way to study the complex and largely unexplored phenomena arising in curved folding.

Bibtex:

@inproceedings{kfcmsp_creases_aag_08,
AUTHOR = "M. Kilian, S. Fl{\"o}ry, Z. Chen, N. J. Mitra, A. Sheffer, H. Pottmann",
TITLE = "Developable Surfaces with Curved Creases",
BOOKTITLE = "Advances in Architectural Geometry",
PAGES = "33--36",
YEAR = "2008",
}

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