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Star Unfolding from a Geodesic Curve

Authors Stephen Kiazyk, Anna Lubiw

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  • unfolding
  • convex polyhedra
  • geodesic curve

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Abstract

There are two known ways to unfold a convex polyhedron without overlap: the star unfolding and the source unfolding, both of which use shortest paths from vertices to a source point on the surface of the polyhedron. Non-overlap of the source unfolding is straightforward; non-overlap of the star unfolding was proved by Aronov and O'Rourke in 1992. Our first contribution is a much simpler proof of non-overlap of the star unfolding.

Both the source and star unfolding can be generalized to use a simple geodesic curve instead of a source point. The star unfolding from a geodesic curve cuts the geodesic curve and a shortest path from each vertex to the geodesic curve. Demaine and Lubiw conjectured that the star unfolding from a geodesic curve does not overlap. We prove a special case of the conjecture. Our special case includes the previously known case of unfolding from a geodesic loop. For the general case we prove that the star unfolding from a geodesic curve can be separated into at most two non-overlapping pieces.

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Stephen Kiazyk and Anna Lubiw. Star Unfolding from a Geodesic Curve. In 31st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 34, pp. 390-404, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SOCG.2015.390

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Stephen Kiazyk
Anna Lubiw

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