Appended Space Installation at Meyerson Hall

Full Scale Prototype

Non-Symmetrical V-Pleat

Non Symmetrical V-Pleat

Kawasaki Theorem

"Kawasaki's theorem, applied to each of the vertices of an arbitrary crease pattern, determines whether the crease pattern is locally flat-foldable, meaning that the part of the crease pattern near the vertex can be flat-folded. However, there exist crease patterns that are locally flat-foldable but that have no global flat folding that works for the whole crease pattern at once. Tom Hull (1994) conjectured that global flat-foldability could be tested by checking Kawasaki's theorem at each vertex of a crease pattern, and then also testing bipartiteness of an undirected graph associated with the crease pattern, but this conjecture was disproven by Bern & Hayes (1996), who showed that the problem of testing global flat-foldability is NP-complete."

SOURCE

Solid Works Mechanics Simulation

Links to PDF References

Accomodating Thickness in Origami based deployable arrays

Mechanical Invention through Computation

Rigid Thick Origami

VIDEO REFERENCES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fByo_BoE64

V-Pleat Miura-ori Rigid Plate Structure

Pattern Investigations 03

Study 03 _ Bridging Panels & Apeture

Pattern Investigations 02

Study 02 _ Non-Symmetrical

Pattern Investigations 01

Study 01 _ Triangular Panels

Hinge Geometry and packing (kind of solved?)

The Patent

Folding & Unfolding

Flat Packing

V-Pleat Miura-ori Rigid Plate Structure