Continuous flattening of some pyramids (Q2509485)

The author considers a notion of a continuous folding process as follows. Let \(P\) be a polyhedron in the Euclidean 3-space. A family of polyhedra \(\{P_t : 0 \leq t \leq 1\}\) is called a continuous folding process from \(P = P_0\) to \(P_1\) if it satisfies the conditions: (a) for each \(0 \leq t\leq 1\), there exists a polyhedron \(P^{\prime}_t\) obtained from \(P\) by subdividing some faces of \(P\) such that \(P_t\) is combinatorially equivalent to \(P^{\prime}_t\) and the corresponding faces of \(P^{\prime}_t\) and \(P_t\) are congruent, (b) the mapping \([0, 1] \ni t \rightarrow P_t \in \{P_t : 0 \leq t \leq 1\}\) is continuous. The author defines a straight skeleton subdivision of a pyramid \(P\) with \(n\)-gonal base for \(3\leq n \leq 5\) and shows that the pyramid \(P\) can be flattered by a continuous folding process according to such a subdivision.