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Napkin Folding Problem / Rumpled Ruble Problem
I think you will find this discussion of the napkin folding problem instructive: Chapter 5 of Lectures on piecewise distance preserving maps. The problem involves "Origami moves", meaning folding and ...
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Can every smooth space curve be realized as an origami curved crease?
Note: I'm revising my answer to make the argument/construction more transparent. In the previous version, I stated an existence result about flat surfaces, but didn't indicate a proof (because, at ...
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Folding a non-rectangular shape into a rectangle of uniform thickness
I also have no solution for $n=3$, but I have solutions for every $n > 3$. The constructions are sketched below, for each of them we fold along all grid lines; folding along the red lines first has ...
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Solution for the sequence of the number of "major flaps" in origami bases and its relation to other sequences
What's up, Subhasish! (I'm actually the friend Subhasish mentioned to @AmirSagiv)
To start off with, the first couple terms of the sequence I found with my solution were: $1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 13, 25, 41, ...
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