Construction and deformation of P-hedra using control polylines
By: Georg Nawratil
Potential Business Impact:
Makes flexible surfaces bend and fold easily.
In the 19th International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics the author introduced a novel class of continuous flexible discrete surfaces and mentioned that these so-called P-hedra (or P-nets) allow direct access to their spatial shapes by three control polylines. In this follow-up paper we study this intuitive method, which makes these flexible planar quad surfaces suitable for transformable design tasks by means of interactive tools. The construction of P-hedra from the control polylines can also be used for an efficient algorithmic computation of their isometric deformations. In addition we discuss flexion limits, bifurcation configurations, developable/flat-foldable pattern and tubular P-hedra.
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