An Origami Assist System by Simulating Origami with Papers of Nonzero Thickness and Presenting Folding Processes using Augmented Reality

Abstract

In recent years, with the development of origami, a lot of complex origami works have been published. However, it is difficult to support folding complex origami works by the traditional origami instructions. To assist users who fold origami, a number of Augmented Reality (AR) based methods have been studied. Although AR has been shown that it is useful in assisting origami, we have not found any work that supports folding complex origami works. In addition, the low performance of the origami simulator for creating the model to be displayed is another factor that makes it difficult to support folding complex origami works. In this paper, we propose a system that assists users to fold complex origami works with an origami simulator that can deal with papers of nonzero thickness. It can present paper folding processes with AR.