Lecture 1 Overview of Geometric Folding Algorithms Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra
I'm Erik Demaine. You can call me Erik. This is the web page for the class. You should all go there if you haven't already, and sign up on this sheet if you want to be on the mailing list. Good. So, maybe I'll tell you a little bit what this class about. Then I'll tell you about how the class works, and then we'll do more about what it's about. The idea of lecture 1 is to cover the entire class in one lecture. Obviously, I will omit a few of the details because we have a lot to cover, but I thought it would be fun to give you a picture what the whole class is, what the sort of content is, so you know whether you want to be here. And my chalk. So this class is about geometry. It's about folding. It's about algorithms. In general, we are interested in the mathematics and algorithms behind folding things. And also unfolding things, because that turns out to be pretty interesting. And the formal term for things is geometric objects. And you thi...