How to fold it : the mathematics of linkages, origami, and polyhedra / / Joseph O'Rourke.
"What do proteins and pop-up cards have in common? How is opening a grocery bag different from opening a gift box? How can you cut out the letters for a whole word all at once with one straight scissors cut? How many ways are there to flatten a cube? With the help of 200 colour figures, author...
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 177 p. :; ill. (chiefly col.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Part I. Linkages: 1. Robot arms; 2. Straight-line linkages and the pantograph; 3. Protein folding and pop-up cards; Part II. Origami: 4. Flat vertex folds; 5. Fold and one-cut; 6. The shopping bag theorem; Part III. Polyhedra: 7. Durer's problem: edge unfolding; 8. Unfolding orthogonal polyhedra; 9. Folding polygons to convex polyhedra; 10. Further reading; 11. Glossary; 12. Answers to exercises; 13. Permissions and acknowledgments.