<p>We study flexible polyhedral nets in isotropic geometry. This geometry has a degenerate metric, but there is a natural notion of flexibility. We study infinitesimal and finite flexibility, and classify all finitely flexible polyhedral nets of arbitrary size. We show that there are just two classes, in contrast to Izmestiev’s rather involved classification in Euclidean geometry, for size <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\(3\times 3\)</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"><math> <mrow> <mn>3</mn> <mo>×</mo> <mn>3</mn> </mrow> </math></EquationSource> </InlineEquation> only. Using these nets to initialize the optimization algorithms, we turn them into approximate Euclidean mechanisms. We also explore the smooth versions of these classes.</p>

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Flexible polyhedral nets in isotropic geometry

  • Olimjoni Pirahmad,
  • Helmut Pottmann,
  • Mikhail Skopenkov

摘要

We study flexible polyhedral nets in isotropic geometry. This geometry has a degenerate metric, but there is a natural notion of flexibility. We study infinitesimal and finite flexibility, and classify all finitely flexible polyhedral nets of arbitrary size. We show that there are just two classes, in contrast to Izmestiev’s rather involved classification in Euclidean geometry, for size \(3\times 3\) 3 × 3 only. Using these nets to initialize the optimization algorithms, we turn them into approximate Euclidean mechanisms. We also explore the smooth versions of these classes.