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Tomohiro Tachi

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#3274

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Tomohiro Tachi's Degrees

PhD Engineering University of Tokyo
Masters Engineering University of Tokyo
Bachelors Engineering University of Tokyo

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According to Wikipedia, Tomohiro Tachi is a Japanese academic who studies origami from an interdisciplinary perspective, combining approaches from the mathematics of paper folding, structural rigidity, computational geometry, architecture, and materials science. His work was profiled in "The Origami Revolution" , part of the Nova series of US science documentaries. He is a professor at the University of Tokyo.

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Tomohiro Tachi's Published Works

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Origami tubes assembled into stiff, yet reconfigurable structures and metamaterials (2015) (399)
Programming curvature using origami tessellations. (2016) (318)
Simulation of Rigid Origami (2006) (219)
Generalization of rigid foldable quadrilateral mesh origami (2009) (208)
Rigid-Foldable Thick Origami (2010) (180)
Origamizing Polyhedral Surfaces (2010) (170)
Geometric Considerations for the Design of Rigid Origami Structures (2010) (140)
Origami-based tunable truss structures for non-volatile mechanical memory operation (2016) (126)
Origami interleaved tube cellular materials (2014) (96)
Designing Freeform Origami Tessellations by Generalizing Resch's Patterns (2013) (92)
(Non)Existence of Pleated Folds: How Paper Folds Between Creases (2009) (77)
Origamizer: A Practical Algorithm for Folding Any Polyhedron (2017) (72)
Freeform Rigid-Foldable Structure using Bidirectionally Flat-Foldable Planar Quadrilateral Mesh (2010) (71)
Origami tubes with reconfigurable polygonal cross-sections (2016) (69)
Freeform Variations of Origami (2010) (66)
RIGID-FOLDABLE CYLINDERS AND CELLS (2013) (64)
One-Dof cylindrical deployable structures with rigid quadrilateral panels (2009) (61)
Folding behaviour of Tachi–Miura polyhedron bellows (2013) (57)
Invariant and smooth limit of discrete geometry folded from bistable origami leading to multistable metasurfaces (2019) (54)
Rigid origami vertices: conditions and forcing sets (2015) (50)
Self-Foldability of Rigid Origami (2016) (48)
3D Origami Design based on Tucking Molecule (2008) (47)
Curved Crease Folding – a Review on Art, Design and Mathematics (2011) (42)
Designing One-DOF Mechanisms for Architecture by Rationalizing Curved Folding (2011) (35)
SYNTHESIS OF RIGID-FOLDABLE CYLINDRICAL POLYHEDRA (2011) (32)
Composite Rigid-Foldable Curved Origami Structure (2013) (25)
Design of Infinitesimally and Finitely Flexible Origami Based on Reciprocal Figures (2012) (24)
FREEFORM ORIGAMI TESSELLATIONS BY GENERALIZING RESCH'S PATTERNS (2013) (24)
Characterization of Curved Creases and Rulings: Design and Analysis of Lens Tessellations (2015) (21)
Interactive Freeform Design of Tensegrity (2012) (20)
Origami acoustics: using principles of folding structural acoustics for simple and large focusing of sound energy (2016) (16)
Interactive Form-Finding of Elastic Origami (2013) (14)
Origami‐Based Cellular Structures with In Situ Transition between Collapsible and Load‐Bearing Configurations (2019) (13)
One-DOF Rigid Foldable Structures from Space Curves (2011) (13)
Rigid Origami Structures with Vacuumatics: Geometric Considerations (2012) (12)
Double-line rigid origami (2017) (12)
Rigid folding of periodic origami tessellations (2015) (11)
Box Pleating is Hard (2015) (11)
Conic Crease Patterns with Reflecting Rule Lines (2018) (9)
Rigid Foldability is NP-Hard (2018) (8)
Zero-Area Reciprocal Diagram of Origami (2016) (7)
Rigid flattening of polyhedra with slits (2015) (6)
Large Curvature Self-Folding Method of a Thick Metal Layer for Hinged Origami/Kirigami Stretchable Electronic Devices (2022) (5)
Deployable Folded-core Sandwich Panels Guided by a Generating Surface (2015) (5)
Triclinic Metamaterials by Tristable Origami with Reprogrammable Frustration (2022) (5)
An Edge Extrusion-Approach to Generate Extruded Miura-Ori and Its Double Tiling Origami Patterns (2018) (4)
ON CURVED CREASES IN ART , DESIGN AND MATHEMATICS (2015) (4)
A graded Miura-ori phononic crystals lens (2021) (3)
Design of a Beetle Inspired Deployable Wing (2017) (3)
Origami-based tunable truss structures for non-volatile mechanical memory operation (2017) (3)
Constructing Points through Folding and Intersection (2013) (3)
Smooth origami animation by crease line adjustment (2006) (2)
3D Origami teapot (2006) (2)
Simple energy dissipation model of riveted lap joint in aircraft structure (2017) (2)
Insect wing 3D printing (2021) (2)
Folding and Punching Paper (2017) (2)
Miura Tubes and Assemblages: Theory and Applications (2015) (2)
Lightweight rigidly foldable canopy using composite materials (2020) (2)
Origami 6 (2016) (2)
Comparison of Soft Curved Crease Surrogate Hinges (2020) (2)
Minimal Ununfoldable Polyhedron (2019) (1)
Origamizing 3D surface by symmetry constraints (2007) (1)
Triclinic Metamaterials by Tristable Origami with Reprogrammable Frustration (Adv. Mater. 43/2022) (2022) (1)
Foldable Cylinder, the Potential Concept for Actuators and Bellows (2011) (1)
Self-Folding Rigid Origami Based on Auxetic Kirigami (2021) (1)
Origami⁶: II. Technology, Art, Education (2015) (0)
Designing Multistable Mechanisms Using Quadrilateral Boundary Rigid Origami (2022) (0)
Designing and Analyzing Multistable Mechanisms Using Quadrilateral Boundary Rigid Origami (2023) (0)
Optimizing the Steffen flexible polyhedron (2015) (0)
Programming Surfaces by Bistable Star Tiling Kirigami (2022) (0)
Regular Paper Folding and Punching Paper (2017) (0)
Integrated Origami-String System (2019) (0)
Freeform Auxetic Mechanisms Based on Corner-Connected Tiles (2022) (0)
Flat Folding a Strip with Parallel or Nonacute Zigzag Creases with Mountain-Valley Assignment (2020) (0)
Full-spectral image-based lighting with skylight (2005) (0)
Ununfoldable polyhedra with 6 vertices or 6 faces (2021) (0)
Geometry and Kinematics of Cylindrical Waterbomb Tessellation (2021) (0)
Serial Chain of Rigid Origami That Extends, Bends and Turns (2021) (0)
Geodesic Folding of Tetrahedron (2019) (0)
RIGID ORIGAMI VERTICES : CONDITIONS AND FORCING (2016) (0)
2D origami teapot with diagram (2006) (0)
Capping Rigid Origami Tubes (2017) (0)
Flexible polyhedra with two degrees of freedom (2016) (0)
Corrigendum to “A balloon-borne very long baseline interferometry experiment in the stratosphere: Systems design and developments” [Adv. Space Res. 63 (2019) 779–793] (2020) (0)
INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURAL ORIGAMI (2019) (0)
A Study on Street Signs Identifiable to Cyclists: ―都心幹線道路を例として― (2012) (0)
Self-foldability of monohedral quadrilateral origami tessellations (2018) (0)
Crane: An Integrated Computational Design Platformfor Functional, Foldable, and Fabricable Origami Products (2022) (0)

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University of Tokyo