Unfolding some classes of orthogonal polyhedra.
Thérèse Biedl, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Anna Lubiw, Mark H. Overmars, Joseph O’Rourke, Steve Robbins, Sue H. Whitesides · 1998
In this paper, we study unfoldings of orthogonal polyhedra. More precisely, we define two special classes of orthogonal polyhedra, orthostacks and orthotubes, and show how to generate unfoldings by cutting faces, such that the resulting surfaces can be flattened into a single connected polygon.