Efficient Algorithm for Box Folding

摘要

For a given polygon P and a polyhedron Q, the folding problem asks if Q can be obtained from P by folding it. This simple problem is quite complicated, and there is no known efficient algorithm that solves this problem in general. In this paper, we focus on the case that Q is a box, and the size of Q is not given. That is, input of the box folding problem is a polygon P, and it asks if P can fold to boxes of certain sizes. We note that there exist an infinite number of polygons P that can fold into three boxes of different sizes. In this paper, we give a pseudo polynomial time algorithm that computes all possible ways of folding of P to boxes.