Folding Polyominoes into (Poly)CubesShow others and affiliations
2018 (English)In: International journal of computational geometry and applications, ISSN 0218-1959, Vol. 28, no 3, p. 197-226Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
We study the problem of folding a polyomino P into a polycube Q, allowing faces of Q to be covered multiple times. First, we define a variety of folding models according to whether the folds (a) must be along grid lines of P or can divide squares in half (diagonally and/or orthogonally), (b) must be mountain or can be both mountain and valley, (c) can remain flat (forming an angle of 180°), and (d) must lie on just the polycube surface or can have interior faces as well. Second, we give all the inclusion relations among all models that fold on the grid lines of P. Third, we characterize all polyominoes that can fold into a unit cube, in some models. Fourth, we give a linear-time dynamic programming algorithm to fold a tree-shaped polyomino into a constant-size polycube, in some models. Finally, we consider the triangular version of the problem, characterizing which polyiamonds fold into a regular tetrahedron.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd , 2018. Vol. 28, no 3, p. 197-226
Keywords [en]
Folding; origami folding; polycubes; polyominoes
National Category
Computer Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-142561DOI: 10.1142/S0218195918500048Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85056746982OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-142561DiVA, id: diva2:1153815
2017-10-312017-10-312025-04-10Bibliographically approved