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Thomas A Evans1, Robert J Lang2, Spencer P Magleby1

  • 1Department of Mechanical Engineering , Brigham Young University , Provo, UT 84602, USA.

Royal Society Open Science
|October 17, 2015
PubMed

Keywords:
crease patternorigamirigid foldabilitytessellation

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