Analysis of Overlapping Faces for Constructing Paper-made Objects from Sketches

Abstract

This paper describes an approach to constructing a 3D paper-made object from hand-written sketches. This approach consists of two phases. One is the phase that constitutes a crease pattern based on a sketch. Another is the phase that constructs a virtual origami model from the obtained crease pattern. The crease pattern is a set of line segments in an unfolded sheet of paper and often designed by origami design methods. When an origami model is folded from a crease pattern, faces in the crease pattern may be transformed into the same plane and some inconsistent objects may be represented. In order to construct feasible (fold-able) objects, we need to dispose the faces on the same plane consistently. Therefore, in this paper, a method for analyzing overlap order of faces based on simulated annealing is proposed. Furthermore, we show some examples of 3D objects constructed by our method. The proposed method is useful for packaging and architectural modeling