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Nets: References



References:

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Biedl, T., and E. Demaine, M. Demaine, A. Lubiw, J. O'Rourke, M. Overmars, S. Robbins, and S. Whitesides, Unfolding some classes of orthogonal polyhedra, in Proc. 10th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, 1998, pp. 70-71.

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Buekenhout, F. and M. Parker, The number of nets of the regular convex polyhedra in dimension, preprint, 1996.

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Lubiw, A. and J. O'Rourke, When can a polygon fold to a polytope? Technical Report 48, Department of Computer Science, Smith College, June, 1996.

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Schevon, C., Algorithms for Geodesics on Polytopes, PhD Thesis, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1989.

Schevon, C. and J. O'Rourke, A conjecture on random unfoldings, Technical Report JHU-87/20, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1987.

Schlickenrieder, W., Nets of Polyhedra, Thesis, Technische Universität Berlin, 1997.

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An expository article about unfolding polyhedra that I wrote in English appears in French:

Le géomètre et la paire de ciseaux, La Recherche, October, 2001, Number 346, p. 62-63.

A web link to an English translation of the article above.

Some web resources about unfoldings.

This link provides some diagrams and results related to unfoldings and conjectures about unfolding.

A link where Schlickenrieder's thesis on unfoldings can be downloaded. (Links on the upper right of the page go to the thesis.)

This page of Jeff Erickson has interesting background about unfolding problems.

This page of Joseph O'Rourke has a variety of items related to unfolding issues, including papers that can be downloaded.