COrigami: AI Pipeline Co-Designs Flat-Foldable Visual Origami.

This research presents COrigami, an innovative AI pipeline designed to facilitate the co-creation of complex origami designs. The system addresses the dual challenge of satisfying strict geometric constraints for flat-foldability while also meeting subjective visual aesthetic requirements, a common hurdle in generating physical art with AI. COrigami operates through an end-to-end process, starting with natural language input to generate a semantic stick figure. It then computes a base packing, solves for a flat-foldable crease pattern, and shapes the resulting design. A crucial component is its reinforcement learning loop, which refines the model based on an autonomous aesthetic evaluation. The pipeline functions as a highly effective collaborative assistant, providing artists with structurally sound starting points that they can further develop and personalize. By combining algorithmic optimization with an AI-driven aesthetic critique, COrigami demonstrates a novel approach to mathematically grounded co-creativity in artistic design.