What is the name of the field of mathematics which can be used to describe folded objects like blankets, aprons, and paper origami. I'm looking along the lines of a tuple with custom entriesor sth similar to describe the folding process with the end result fully deducable from the tuple (a separate simpler model for blankets could also be used).
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Mathematics of real-life folded objects.
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Rather unsurprisingly the field of mathematics that studies origami (and other folded objects) is called, wait for it, mathematical origami.
The Wikipedia has an entry on it with decent references; two of the recognized experts in the US in this field are Robert Lang and Erik Demaine. Lang's Origami Design Secrets and Demaine and O'Rourke's Geometric folding algorithms are probably good places to start your research.