The Cosmic Spiderweb and General Origami Tessellation Design
arXiv:1809.00015
Abstract
The cosmic web (the arrangement of matter in the universe), spider's webs, and origami tessellations are linked by their geometry (specifically, of sectional-Voronoi tessellations). This motivates origami and textile artistic representations of the cosmic web. It also relates to the scientific insights origami can bring to the cosmic web; we show results of some cosmological computer simulations, with some origami-tessellation properties. We also adapt software developed for cosmic-web research to provide an interactive tool for general origami-tessellation design.
Accepted to Origami, proceedings of 7OSME, the 7th meeting of Origami, Science, Mathematics and Education, Oxford, Sep 2018. Software at https://github.com/neyrinck/sectional-tess
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