Title
Folding a Paper Strip to Minimize Thickness.
Abstract
In this paper, we study how to fold a specified origami crease pattern in order to minimize the impact of paper thickness. Specifically, origami designs are often expressed by a mountain–valley pattern (plane graph of creases with relative fold orientations), but in general this specification is consistent with exponentially many possible folded states. We analyze the complexity of finding the best consistent folded state according to two metrics: minimizing the total number of layers in the folded state (so that a “flat folding” is indeed close to flat), and minimizing the total amount of paper required to execute the folding (where “thicker” creases consume more paper). We prove both problems strongly NP-complete even for 1D folding. On the other hand, we prove both problems fixed-parameter tractable in 1D with respect to the number of layers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.jda.2015.09.003
Journal of Discrete Algorithms
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Linkage,NP-complete,Optimization problem,Rigid origami
Journal
36
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1570-8667
1
0.54
References 
Authors
5
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Erik D. Demaine14624388.59
David Eppstein24897533.94
Adam Hesterberg347.07
Hiro Ito429039.95
Anna Lubiw575395.36
Ryuhei Uehara652875.38
yushi uno722228.80