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Folded paper won't?

• josefx 4mo ago
  Folded paper has some structure, so not as much?
• boothby 4mo ago
  If anybody has ever tried folding a very large paper (or, bedsheets, tarps, etc), they'll realize the wisdom of this comment. Our intuition from folding paper on the order of several to tens of centimetres does not scale to arbitrary size and precision. Paper is relatively rigid, but its rigidity is finite and ensuring local-to-global flatness becomes a painstaking endeavour.
  • srean 4mo ago
    Then there is the puzzle of coming up with folds to intentionally increase the rigidity of the surface. Essentially, using Theorema Pizzarium