Twisted D-Forms: Design and Construction of D-Forms with Twisted Prismatic Handles with Developable Sides
Qing Xing, Gabriel Esquivel, Ergun Akleman

Proceedings of Bridges 2012: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture
Pages 323–328
Regular papers

Abstract

In this paper, we present Twisted D-Forms that are constructed by connecting faces of a planar polyhedra with a set of twisted prismatic handles with developable sides. We have designed and constructed a variety of twisted D-Forms using sheet metals or papers. These shapes consist of only a small number of pieces that are cut with laser cutter. Figure 1 shows an example of such twisted D-forms.

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