On rigid origami II: quadrilateral creased papers. (27th May 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: He, Zeyuan; Guest, Simon D.
• Is Part Of: Proceedings. Volume 476:Number 2237(2020)
• Publication Date: 2020-05-27
• Subjects: rigid-foldable -- folding -- degree-4 -- Kokotsakis quadrilateral; Physical sciences -- Periodicals; Engineering -- Periodicals; Mathematics -- Periodicals; 500
• DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2020.0020
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1364-5021

Abstract

Abstract : Miura-ori is well known for its capability of flatly folding a sheet of paper through a tessellated crease pattern made of repeating parallelograms. Many potential applications have been based on the Miura-ori and its primary variations. Here, we are considering how to generalize the Miura-ori: what is the collection of rigid-foldable creased papers with a similar quadrilateral crease pattern as the Miura-ori? This paper reports some progress. We find some new variations of Miura-ori with less symmetry than the known rigid-foldable quadrilateral meshes. They are not necessarily developable or flat-foldable, and still only have single degree of freedom in their rigid folding motion. This article presents a classification of the new variations we discovered and explains the methods in detail.