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Enumerating Foldings and Unfoldings between Polygons and Polytopes

Abstract

We pose and answer several questions concerning the number of ways to fold a polygon to a polytope, and how many polytopes can be obtained from one polygon; and the analogous questions for unfolding polytopes to polygons. Our answers are, roughly: exponentially many, or nondenumerably infinite.Comment: 12 pages; 10 figures; 10 references. Revision of version in Proceedings of the Japan Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry, Tokyo, Nov. 2000, pp. 9-12. See also cs.CG/000701

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