Negative 3D gadgets in origami extrusions with a supporting triangle on the back side

TL;DR

This paper introduces three new constructions of negative 3D gadgets in origami extrusions with a supporting triangle, enabling the creation of negative gadgets that mirror positive ones without altering outgoing pleats.

Contribution

The paper provides the first affirmative solutions for constructing negative 3D gadgets with the same pleats as positive ones, extending previous methods and allowing consistent negative gadget creation.

Findings

Three constructions of negative 3D gadgets with a supporting triangle are proposed.

The first and third constructions successfully solve the negative gadget problem.

Methods for repetition and division of negative 3D gadgets are also developed.

Abstract

In our previous two papers, we studied (positive) 3D gadgets in origami extrusions which create a top face parallel to the ambient paper and two side faces sharing a ridge with two simple outgoing pleats. Then a natural problem comes up whether it is possible to construct a `negative' 3D gadget from any positive one having the same net without changing the outgoing pleats, that is, to sink the top and two side faces of any positive 3D gadget to the reverse side without changing the outgoing pleats. Of course, simply sinking the faces causes a tear of the paper, and thus we have to modify the crease pattern. There are two known constructions of negative 3D gadgets before ours, but they do not solve this problem because their outgoing pleats are different from positive ones. In the present paper we give an affirmative solution to the above problem. For this purpose, we present three constructions of negative 3D gadgets with a supporting triangle on the back side, which are based on our previous ones of positive 3D gadgets. The first two are an extension of those presented in our previous paper, and the third is new. We prove that our first and third constructions solve the problem. Our solutions enable us to deal with positive and negative 3D gadgets on the same basis, so that we can construct from an origami extrusion constructed with 3D gadgets its negative using the same pleats if there are no interferences among the 3D gadgets. We also treat repetition/division of negative 3D gadgets under certain conditions, which reduces their interferences with others.