Hinged Dissection of Polypolyhedra
Hinged Dissection of Polypolyhedra
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多多面体的铰接解剖
DOI:
10.1007/11534273_19
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发表时间:
2005
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通讯作者:
D. Souvaine
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作者:
E. Demaine;M. Demaine;Jeffrey F. Lindy;D. Souvaine
This paper presents a general family of 3D hinged dissections forpolypolyhedra, i.e., connected 3D solids formed by joining several rigid copies of the same polyhedron along identical faces. (Such joinings are possible only for reflectionally symmetric faces.) Each hinged dissection consists of a linear number of solid polyhedral pieces hinged along their edges to form a flexible closed chain (cycle). For each base polyhedronPand each positive integern, a single hinged dissection has folded configurations corresponding to all possible polypolyhedra formed by joiningncopies of the polyhedronP. In particular, these results settle the open problem posed in [7] about the special case of polycubes (wherePis a cube) and extend analogous results from 2D [7].Along the way, we present hinged dissections for polyplatonics (wherePis a platonic solid) that are particularly efficient: among a type of hinged dissection, they use the fewest possible pieces.