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> Does anyone know what the name of the algorithm would be for unfolding arbitrary polyhedra? AFAIK Shepard’s conjecture “every convex polyhedron has an unfold
by Someone 4y ago
> Does anyone know what the name of the algorithm would be for unfolding arbitrary polyhedra?
AFAIK Shepard’s conjecture “every convex polyhedron has an unfolding without overlap” is still open, so I’m not sure that exists.
Links you may or may not have seen:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_(polyhedron) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_(polyhedron)
- https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Unfolding.html https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Unfolding.html
- http://web.york.cuny.edu/~malk/unfolding.html http://web.york.cuny.edu/~malk/unfolding.html
- andybak 4y agoYeah. I'm under no illusions that there's always a single connected solution to be easily found. I suppose I'm wondering if there's a good strategy other than just breadth-first trial and error. Thanks for the links. I'll check them out.