Preparation for laser cutter, waterjet, etc.

[edemaine]

Tessellatica has nice support for dashing creases, skipping near the corners, for input to a laser cutter. It would be nice to be able to do this with a FOLD file too. (Related, it would be nice to have FOLD import in Tessellatica, but it would still be nice to do this without needed Mathematica.) Similarly, we could imagine automatic generation of cut patterns for cutting metal, Jason's hinges, just trimming vertices for vinyl cutting, etc.

I'm not sure whether this makes sense as a separate tool or as mode of Fold Viewer, but I lean toward separate tool.

Sam Calisch wrote some Python software for this in his 6.849 project. This might be a good reference / starting point.