article_snippet: For anyone packing for their holidays this year, getting their clothes to fit neatly inside their bags is always a struggle.
article_snippet: However, the scientists work has also revealed the most effective ways of folding clothing so it can be stacked and packed away that may also help humans too.
article_snippet: Dr Pieter Abbeel, an associate professor in computer science at the University of California Berkeley, and his colleagues who have been conducting the research, said Dr Pieter Abbeel, an associate professor in computer science at the University of California Berkeley, and his colleagues who have been conducting the research attempted to solve the problem of folding clothing by treating it as a problem of geometry.
article_snippet: Dr Pieter Abbeel, an associate professor in computer science at the University of California Berkeley, and his colleagues who have been conducting the research said: 'Spread crudley on a table, real-world clothing items do not perfectly resemble simple polygons. 'real-world clothing items contain curves rather than straight lines, corners which are rounded rather than sharp, and small intricacies which no two articles of a given class will necessarily share. '
article_snippet: Rather than reason explicitly about these complex shapes, we wish to transpose Rather than reason explicitly about these complex shapes as best we can into a shape which we know how to fold.'
article_snippet: This is the technique the engineers recommended for folding up a standard t-shirt into a neat rectangle .
article_snippet: The approach outlined above shows how The researchers recommend folding a variety of different clothing .
article_snippet: It is then able to assess The researchers best way of folding the clothing based on the clothing shape.
article_snippet: The g-fold method was also able to fold a collared shirt quite neatly, despite that The g-fold method
article_snippet: in order to achieve truly neat folds it may be necessary to use an iron.
article_snippet: Recently an approach known as the Japanese folding method, where a t-shirt is folded by gripping just two points on the cloth, has become popular.
article_snippet: Others, such as researchers at the University of Oklahoma, have recommended packing bags using the bundle method.
article_snippet: This, Others, such as researchers at the University of Oklahoma claim, allows clothes to be bundled into a relatively small bag without while minimising the number of creases Others, such as researchers at the University of Oklahoma have.
highlights_snippet: Engineers at University of California Berkeley assessed folding techniques .
  
highlights_snippet: T-shirts, jumpers and trousers can be folded with this into neat rectangles .
  