A Locked Orthogonal Tree
Charlton, David · Demaine, Erik D. · Demaine, Martin L. · Price, Gregory · Tu, Yaa-Lirng
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We give a counterexample to a conjecture of Poon [Poo06] that any orthogonal tree in two dimensions can always be flattened by a continuous motion that preserves edge lengths and avoids self-intersection. We show our example is locked by extending results on strongly locked self-touching linkages due to Connelly, Demaine and Rote [CDR02] to allow zero-length edges as defined in [ADG07], which may be of independent interest. Our results also yield a locked tree with only eleven edges, which is the smallest known example of a locked tree.
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