multi-layered rigid-foldable tube

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Comment by V. Bergen on October 23, 2013 at 5:28am

Hi,

First of all, my compliments for your very interesting research!

I am an Architecture/structural design student at a local university and I am very interested in the form freedom of some origami models. After having made some paper models I started to insert them in a pc program so I can use the geometry for a more scientifically manner. (And check their structural efficiency) After having started in GH I was able to model the in plane movement of a Miura and Eggbox fold. However, I was unable to describe the out of plane movement.

This is why I started to investigate your Freeform origami program. This program works great for the Miura an waterbomb fold, and I am planning to validate their form by doing some experiments with paper models. Unfortunately the Ronresch.dxf that was included in the model-demo folder does not fold as it should be as is shown in the figure below. This while I am very interesting in the form freedom of this origami.. Do you know what the problem of this file is? Maybe its because it is an .dxf file instead of an .obj file? Or when I start the freeform program I get an error message, does it has to do something with this? (free origami 0.23) You would really help me when you are able to solve this problem!

Thanks in advance,

Bergen

Comment by Luis Angel on September 3, 2013 at 3:30pm

Hello, what program did you used for rendering? Looks really cool

Comment by Chris K. Palmer on August 9, 2009 at 8:44am

Beautiful!!