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Flat 2-Foldings of Convex Polygons
Mathematics Faculty Publications
  • Jin Akiyama
  • Koichi Hirata
  • Mari-Jo P Ruiz, Ateneo de Manila University
  • Jorge Urrutia
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-2005
Abstract

A folding of a simple polygon into a convex polyhedron is accomplished by glueing portions of the perimeter of the polygon together to form a polyhedron. A polygon Q is a flat n -folding of a polygon P if P can be folded to exactly cover the surface of Qn times, with no part of the surface of P left over. In this paper we focus on a specific type of flat 2-foldings, flat 2-foldings that wrapQ ; that is, foldings of P that cover both sides of Q exactly once. We determine, for any n, all the possible flat 2-foldings of a regular n-gon. We finish our paper studying the set of polygons that are flat 2-foldable to regular polygons.

Citation Information
Akiyama J., Hirata K., Ruiz MJ.P., Urrutia J. (2005) Flat 2-Foldings of Convex Polygons. In: Akiyama J., Baskoro E.T., Kano M. (eds) Combinatorial Geometry and Graph Theory. IJCCGGT 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3330. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg