Every time something like this comes up, I recall “office hours” with David Huffman at UC Santa Cruz. Most of the conversation was about things other than class. One frequent topic was his paper folding.<p><a href="https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/collections/collection/david-a-huffman-collection" rel="nofollow">https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/collections/collection/david-a-huf...</a>
Full paper: <a href="https://erikdemaine.org/papers/JCDCG98/paper.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://erikdemaine.org/papers/JCDCG98/paper.pdf</a>
If you like the Demaines' work, you'll probably like the award-winning PBS documentary Between The Folds [0] which features them and many other amazing people working with origami.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiIr7du6Y3w" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiIr7du6Y3w</a>
The MIT link I shared mentioned Demaine studied Huffman's work but the mini and full paper make no reference. I first heard about this from Huffman when Demaine was about 16 years old. So I would hope for some reference there in.
Note the authors are Erik Demaine, his father and his doctoral adviser.<p>Erik was born in 1981.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Demaine" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Demaine</a>