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Continuous Flattening of All Polyhedral Manifolds using Countably Infinite Creases

2021

Authors: Zachary Abel, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Jason S. Ku, Jayson Lynch, Jin-ichi Itoh, and Chie Nara

Publication: Computational Geometry

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Rigid Foldability is NP-Hard

2020

Authors: Hugo A. Akitaya, Erik D. Demaine, Takashi Horiyama, Thomas C. Hull, Jason S. Ku, and Tomohiro Tachi

Publication: Journal of Computational Geometry

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Infinite All-Layers Simple Foldability

2019

Authors: Hugo Akitaya, Cordelia Avery, Joseph Bergeron, Erik D. Demaine, Justin Kopinsky, and Jason S. Ku

Publication: Graphs and Combinatorics

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Pachinko

2018

Authors: Hugo A. Akitaya, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Adam Hesterberg, Ferran Hurtado, Jason S. Ku, and Jayson Lynch

Publication: Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications

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Simple Folding is Really Hard

2017

Authors: Hugo Akitaya, Erik D. Demaine, and Jason S. Ku

Publication: Journal of Information Processing

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Folded Structures Satisfying Multiple Conditions

2017

Authors: Erik D. Demaine and Jason S. Ku

Publication: Journal of Information Processing

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Rigid Origami Vertices: Conditions and Forcing Sets

2016

Authors: Zachary Abel, Jason Cantarella, Erik D. Demaine, David Eppstein, Thomas C. Hull, Jason S. Ku, Robert J. Lang, and Tomohiro Tachi

Publication: Journal of Computational Geometry

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Urban Street Lighting Infrastructure Monitoring Using a Mobile Sensor Platform

2016

Authors: Sumeet Kumar, Ajay Deshpande, Stephen S. Ho, Jason S. Ku, and Sanjay E. Sarma

Publication: IEEE Sensors Journal

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Folding Flat Crease Patterns With Thick Materials

2016

Authors: Jason S. Ku and Erik D. Demaine

Publication: Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics

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Refereed Book Chapters

Folding Triangular and Hexagonal Mazes

2018

Authors: Erik D. Demaine, Jason S. Ku, and Madonna Yoder

Publication: Origami^7: Proceedings of the 7th International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education (OSME 2018)

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Efficient Origami Construction of Orthogonal Terrains using Cross-Section Evolution

2018

Authors: Amartya Shankha Biswas, Erik D. Demaine, and Jason S. Ku

Publication: Origami^7: Proceedings of the 7th International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education (OSME 2018)

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Filling a Hole in a Crease Pattern: Isometric Mapping of a Polygon given a Folding of its Boundary

2015

Authors: Erik D. Demaine and Jason S. Ku

Publication: Origami^6: Proceedings of the 6th International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education (OSME 2014)

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Folding Any Orthogonal Maze

2011

Authors: Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, and Jason S. Ku

Publication: Origami^5: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education (OSME 2010)

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Origami Maze Puzzle Font

2010

Authors: Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, and Jason S. Ku

Publication: Exchange Book of the 9th Gathering for Gardner (G4G9)

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Refereed Conference Papers

Finding Closed Quasigeodesics on Convex Polyhedra

2020

Authors: Demaine, Erik D, Hesterberg, Adam C, and Ku, Jason S

Publication: 36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2020)

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Rectangular Unfoldings of Polycubes

2019

Authors: Martin L. Demaine, Robert Hearn, Jason S. Ku, and Ryuhei Uehara

Publication: Proceedings of the 31st Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry

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Computing 3SAT on a Fold-and-Cut Machine

2017

Authors: Byoungkwon An, Erik D. Demaine, and Martin L. Demaine and Jason S. Ku

Publication: Proceedings of the 29th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry

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Folding Thick Material Using Axially Varying Volume Trimming

2017

Authors: Jason S. Ku

Publication: ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference

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Box Pleating is Hard

2016

Authors: Hugo A. Akitaya, Kenneth C. Cheung, Erik D. Demaine, Takashi Horiyama, Thomas C. Hull, Jason S. Ku, Tomohiro Tachi, and Ryuhei Uehara

Publication: Discrete and Computational Geometry and Graphs

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Symmetric assembly puzzles are hard, beyond a few pieces

2016

Authors: Erik D. Demaine, Matias Korman, Jason S. Ku, Joseph Mitchell, Yota Otachi, Marcel Roeloffzen, Ryuhei Uehara, Yushi Uno, and Andr\'e van Renssen

Publication: Discrete and Computational Geometry and Graphs

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Rigid Folding Analysis of Offset Crease Thick Folding

2016

Authors: Jason S. Ku and Erik D. Demaine

Publication: Proceedings of the 2016 International Association of Spatial Structures Annual Symposium

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Folding Flat Crease Patterns With Thick Materials

2015

Authors: Jason S. Ku and Erik D. Demaine

Publication: ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference

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Landmark Mapping from unbiased observations

2015

Authors: Jason S. Ku, Stephen Ho, and Sanjay Sarma

Publication: 2015 IEEE First International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)

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Filling a Hole in a Crease Pattern: Isometric Mapping of a Polygon given a Folding of its Boundary

2014

Authors: Erik D. Demaine and Jason S. Ku

Publication: Abstracts from the 6th International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education (OSME 2014)

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Refereed Conference Abstracts

Inflatable origami-inspired structures

2019

Authors: David Melancon, Chuck Hoberman, Benjamin Gorissen, Carlos Garcia Mora, Yunfang Yang, Jason S. Ku, Erik Demaine, and Katia Bertoldi

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Folding Triangular and Hexagonal Mazes

2018

Authors: Erik D. Demaine, Jason S. Ku, and Madonna Yoder

Publication: Abstracts from the 7th International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education (OSME 2018)

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Negative Instance for the Edge Patrolling Beacon Problem

2018

Authors: Zachary Abel, Hugo A. Akitaya, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Adam Hesterberg, Matias Korman, Jason S. Ku, and Jayson Lynch

Publication: Abstracts from the 21st Japan Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry, Graphs, and Games (JCDCGGG 2018)

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Efficient Origami Construction of Orthogonal Terrains using Cross-Section Evolution

2018

Authors: Amartya Shankha Biswas, Erik D. Demaine, and Jason S. Ku

Publication: Abstracts from the 7th International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education (OSME 2018)

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Toward Unfolding Doubly Covered n-Stars

2018

Authors: Hugo A. Akitaya, Brad Ballinger, Mirela Damian, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Robin Flatland, Irina Kostitsyna and Jason S. Ku, Stephan Langerman, Joseph O'Rourke, and Ryuhei Uehara

Publication: Abstracts from the 21th Japan Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry and Graphs (JCDCGGG 2018)

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Infinite All-Layers Simple Foldability

2017

Authors: Hugo Akitaya, Cordelia Avery, Joseph Bergeron, Erik D. Demaine, Justin Kopinsky, and Jason S. Ku

Publication: Abstracts from the 20th Japan Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry and Graphs (JCDCGGG 2017)

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Complexity of Benndorf's "The Game"

2017

Authors: Jason S. Ku and Mikhail Rudoy

Publication: Abstracts from the 20th Japan Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry and Graphs (JCDCGGG 2017)

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Simple Folding is Really Hard

2016

Authors: Hugo A. Akitaya, Erik D. Demaine, and Jason S. Ku

Publication: Abstracts from the 19th Japan Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry and Graphs (JCDCGGG 2016)

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Generating Crease Patterns from Prescribed Boundary Foldings

2016

Authors: Jason S. Ku

Publication: Abstracts from the 2016 AMS Special Session on Origami Methods and Applications

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Satisfying Multiple Boundary Conditions

2016

Authors: Erik D. Demaine and Jason S. Ku

Publication: Abstracts from the 19th Japan Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry and Graphs (JCDCGGG 2016)

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Symmetric assembly puzzles are hard, beyond a few pieces

2015

Authors: Erik D. Demaine, Matias Korman, Jason S. Ku, Joseph Mitchell, Yota Otachi, Marcel Roeloffzen, Ryuhei Uehara, Yushi Uno, and Andr\'e van Renssen

Publication: Abstracts from the 18th Japan Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry and Graphs (JCDCGG 2015)

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Box Pleating is Hard

2015

Authors: Hugo A. Akitaya, Kenneth C. Cheung, Erik D. Demaine, Takashi Horiyama, Thomas C. Hull, Jason S. Ku, Tomohiro Tachi, and Ryuhei Uehara

Publication: Abstracts from the 18th Japan Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry and Graphs (JCDCGG 2015)

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Introduction to Origami Folding, Design, and Analysis

2012

Authors: Jason S. Ku and Jie Qi

Publication: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction

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Transport of intensity imaging applied to quantitative optical phase tomography

2011

Authors: Justin W. Lee, Jason S. Ku, Laura Waller, and George Barbastathis

Publication: Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional Imaging

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Design of Systems for Underwater Optical Imaging in the Presence of Particulates

2010

Authors: Lei Tian, Jonathan C. Petruccelli, Jason S. Ku, Xiaogang Liu, and George Barbastathis

Publication: Abstracts from the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned Systems (ICIUS)

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Folding Any Orthogonal Maze

2010

Authors: Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, and Jason S. Ku

Publication: Abstracts from the 5th International Conference on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education (OSME 2010)

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Other Publications

A New File Standard to Represent Folded Structures

2016

Authors: Erik D. Demaine, Jason S. Ku, and Robert J. Lang

Publication: Abstracts from the 26th Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry

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Efficient Foldings of Convex Polyhedra from Convex Paper

2015

Authors: Erik D. Demaine and Jason S. Ku

Publication: Abstracts from the 25th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry

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Simple Folding is Strongly NP-Complete

2014

Authors: Hugo A. Akitaya, Erik D. Demaine, and Jason S. Ku

Publication: Abstracts from the 24th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry

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Theses

On the Design of Physical Folded Structures

2016

Authors: Jason S. Ku

Publication: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thesis Level: Doctoral Thesis

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Origami Tomography

2012

Authors: Jason S. Ku

Publication: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thesis Level: Masters Thesis

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Methods of Invisibility and Multi-Dimensional Display

2009

Authors: Jason S. Ku

Publication: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thesis Level: Undergraduate Thesis

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Jason S. Ku

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