Origami designs can produce an amazing diversity of 3-dimensional shapes from a 2-dimensional piece of paper without cuts or glue. In the late 70s, David Huffman (of the Huffman Coding algorithm used in JPEG compression) showed how the same mathematical techniques used for quantifying the amount of charge in an arbitrary electric field, the Gaussian Sphere, can be used to prove which individual vertices in a crease pattern are possible from a simple piece of paper. Determining valid crease patterns has applications to computer graphics, materials science, and design.

Paper: http://www.organicorigami.com/thrackl...

Catherine Holloway is a Site Reliability Engineer in Finance. She previously gave a lightning talk about algorithms for lawn mowing, which has applications in computerized embroidery. She is about to become a mother and has already acquired the inevitable closet full of unused crafting supplies and equipment.


Papers We Love NYC would like to thank Datadog (https://www.datadoghq.com/) for making this meetup possible.