Publications with Zachary Abel
Flat foldings of plane graphs with prescribed angles and edge lengths.
Z. Abel, E. Demaine, M. Demaine, D. Eppstein, A. Lubiw, and R. Uehara.
arXiv:1408.6771.
22nd Int. Symp. Graph Drawing, Würzburg, Germany, 2014.
Springer, Lecture Notes in Comp. Sci. 8871, 2014, pp. 272–283.
J. Computational Geometry 9 (1): 74–93, 2018.Given a plane graph with fixed edge lengths, and an assignment of the angles 0, 180, and 360 to the angles between adjacent edges, we show how to test whether the angle assignment can be realized by an embedding of the graph as a flat folding on a line. As a consequence, we can determine whether two-dimensional cell complexes with one vertex can be flattened. The main idea behind the result is to show that each face of the graph can be folded independently of the other faces.
Rigid origami vertices: Conditions and forcing sets.
Z. Abel, J. Cantarella, E. Demaine, D. Eppstein, T. Hull, J. Ku, R. Lang, and T. Tachi.
arXiv:1507.01644.
J. Computational Geometry 7 (1): 171–184, 2016.We give an exact characterization of the one-vertex origami folding patterns that can be folded rigidly, without bending the parts of the paper between the folds.