Yan Zhao

Jiangsu University · School of Computer Science and Communication Engineering

The basic principle of origami is to use two-dimensional flat materials to obtain various three-dimensional target shapes by folding crease patterns. Among them, the study of waterbomb tessellations inspires the design and functionality implementation of engineering structures. However, there are some optimization spaces when building three-dimensi...

As a classical origami pattern, the waterbomb tessellation consisting of a set of waterbomb bases shows the potential to morph into three-dimensional surfaces by folding flat sheet materials. Here, we present an inverse-design method to approximate three-dimensional target surfaces based on this origami. First, we utilize the waterbomb base, in whi...

Origami tessellations have shown the potential to be utilized for approximating curved target surfaces by folding a set of elemental units. As those units are in partially folded states, the origami approximation captures the outline of the target while demonstrating a corrugated surface. In this paper, we focus on the cylindrical surface and propo...

Origami has provided a potential way to construct 3D curved structures by folding flat sheet materials without cutting or stretching. As a traditional origami, waterbomb tessellation is widely studied from aspects of science and engineering. However, users cannot easily utilize this kind of origami to fit curved target surfaces because the underlyi...

Three-dimensional (3D) origami, which can generate a structure through folding a crease pattern on a flat sheet of paper, has received considerable attention in art, mathematics, and engineering. With consideration of symmetry, the user can efficiently generate a rational crease pattern and make the fabricated shape stable. In this paper, we focus...

Origami has received much attention in geometry, mathematics, and engineering due to its potential to construct 3D developable shapes from designed crease patterns on a flat sheet. Waterbomb tessellation, which is one type of traditional origami consisting of a set of waterbomb bases, has been used to create geometrically appealing 3D shapes and be...

Origami, also known as paper folding, has shown its potential to construct 3D structures from designed crease patterns on a flat sheet. This paper proposes a method to design axisymmetric 3D origami with generic six-crease bases. Inspired by the conventional six-crease bases, i.e., waterbomb base or Yoshimura base, where six regular crease lines me...

We propose a tangible user interface combining pop-up cards with conductive ink printing technique. To fulfill our purpose, we developed software that can automatically calculate the circuit layouts on the pop-up card. The circuit layout is made to have the shortest path by considering the thickness of the layout, the space between circuit lines, a...

We propose a novel design method for 3D origami consisting of triangular facets with an axisymmetric structure. Our method interactively designs a rotationally-symmetric crease pattern and then analytically calculates the 3D origami with real-time human interaction. The proposed method enables us to change one parameter to axisymmetrically deform t...

Origami, the art of folding a piece of paper into a three-dimensional (3D) form, has received much attention in geometry, mathematics, and engineering. In recent years, several approaches for designing 3D origami have been proposed, and many creative origami pieces have been generated. In this paper, we propose a novel 3D origami design method for...