Making the Cut: LatticeKirigamiRules

Toen Castle, Yigil Cho, Xingting Gong, Euiyeon Jung, Daniel M. Sussman, Shu Yang, Randall D. Kamien
2014 Physical Review Letters  
In this paper we explore and develop a simple set of rules that apply to cutting, pasting, and folding honeycomb lattices. We consider origami-like structures that are extinsically flat away from zero-dimensional sources of Gaussian curvature and one-dimensional sources of mean curvature, and our cutting and pasting rules maintain the intrinsic bond lengths on both the lattice and its dual lattice. We find that a small set of rules is allowed providing a framework for exploring and building
more » ... gami -- folding, cutting, and pasting the edges of paper.
doi:10.1103/physrevlett.113.245502 pmid:25541778 fatcat:67l4wgsvpnbxzpn223omninkw4