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This Matlab script generates superposed folding paper models by allowing the user to input fold orientations or randomly selecting them. The script outputs a colored or black and white paper model figure that can be saved as a PNG file. The user can modify parameters like the fold geometry, model resolution and quality, layer thickness, and color scheme.

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Matlab Script

This Matlab script generates superposed folding paper models by allowing the user to input fold orientations or randomly selecting them. The script outputs a colored or black and white paper model figure that can be saved as a PNG file. The user can modify parameters like the fold geometry, model resolution and quality, layer thickness, and color scheme.

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Falak Sher Buzdar
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Matlab script for generating superposed folding papermodels


This page contains a brief description of the Matlab script that was used for generating the superposed folding
papermodels. An explanation of the underlying mathematics can be found here. The following instructions
outline how to run and how to modify the script.

How to run the script

First copy all the m-files provided to a folder and then launch Matlab and open the script
'SUPERPOSED_FOLD_PAPERMODEL.m'. Then run the script by selecting 'Run' in the 'Debug' menu, or by using
the shortcut F5. You might get a message that the file is not found in the current directory. Select 'Change
Matlab current directory' and click OK. Then the following Menu appears:

If you use the first option you can select the first and refold fold orientations by clicking with the mouse on a
stereonet (see below). If you use the second option then the fold orientations listed in the script are used.
Alternatively you can 'ask the computer' to randomly choose fold orientations for you. If you select either the
second or the third option then a stereonet plot with the fold orientation data (quoting dip direction/dip and
plunge direction/plunge) is shown. If you select the first option then a blank stereonet appears.

In case you want to select the fold orientations with the mouse then click on the stereonet (crosslines help you
to precisely pick the orientation data). The first mouse-click provides the orientation of the first fold axis (b1;
red filled circle). The second mouse click is used to define the fold axial plane of the first fold (FAP1).
Remember that a plane can be defined by two non-parallel lines and that the fold axis is contained within the
fold axial plane. The second point (open red circle) therefore represents one of an infinite number of lines that
is contained within the plane. The refold fold orientation (blue) is generated using the same steps, first select
the fold axis (b2), then another line that is contained within the fold axial plane (FAP2).

Then the following menu appears:


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If you have a black and white printer only or if you want to photocopy the papermodel then you might want to
use the black and white option. If you have a colour printer then select the colour option. Alternatively you
might want to colour the layers yourself using colour pencils/crayons (this might be a good exercise for
undergrads) and plot the layer boundaries only. If however you are not satisfied with your own selection, or
with the orientation data randomly selected by the computer, you can cancel and start again. If you selected
one of the first three options then a figure with a papermodel, like the one shown below, appears. How fast the
papermodel figure appears depends on the model resolution (see below) and on the speed of your computer (it
typically takes about a minute to calculate a print quality model).

Finally a menu appears that gives you the option of saving the model as an PNG file.

If you select 'Yes' then the model is saved using the fold orientation data as a filename. For the example shown

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above the filename would be: Superposed_Papermodel_F1_235_71_-45_F2_43_44_-62_col.png

How to modify the script

By default the fold parameters A, B and C of both fold generations are 3.0, 1.0 and 1.0, the resolution of each
papermodel face is provided by a 750 × 750 squares grid, the side length L of each face is 5π and the layer
thicknesses are L/15. You are welcome to change these parameters but the script does not check whether the
input values are sensible or not!

You can also reduce the quality of the papermodel by, for example, setting np = 100. Models which are not
generated at print quality can be produced rapidly, therefore providing a means of familiarising yourself with
the usage of the script and quickly exploring the impact of various parameters on interference pattern
geometry.

In addition to the parameters already mentioned above the colour scheme can be altered by changing the
state of the number generator, e.g. rand('state', 25) will produce a different random colour pattern than
rand('state', 26), which is what I used for all the papermodels on this webpage.

The Matlab Editor window that shows the set of parameters that can be changed is shown below.

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