A Generalization of the Source Unfolding of Convex Polyhedra
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We present a new method for unfolding a convex polyhedron into one piece without overlap, based on shortest paths to a convex curve on the polyhedron. Our “sun unfoldings” encompass source unfolding from a point, source unfolding from an open geodesic curve, and a variant of a recent method of Itoh, O’Rourke, and Vı̂lcu.
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