You may be familiar with origami, the Japanese art of paper folding ... often made in a grid-like pattern to create more organized designs. Often, smocking is done with soft fabrics, and you ...

Origami is the ... rules that govern how paper folding works. Indeed, if you take an origami model, of a bird for example, and carefully unfold it, you’ll see the pattern of creases that act ...

A new algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3-D structure. In a 1999 paper, Erik Demaine -- now an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science, but ...

You can make a typical origami crane in about 20 folds ... and they’re all made out of a single square sheet of paper. [Photo: courtesy Juho Könkkölä] Könkkölä, who recently graduated ...

These practitioners began developing algorithms that automatically generate the crease patterns ... origami is currently undergoing a technical and creative revolution. But this new science of ...

The pattern uses the simplest mountain-valley fold in origami to tile the plane of a sheet of paper. Miura-ori has been used as a decorative accessory in clothing for centuries and has the ...

Physicist Dr. Robert Lang has turned geek pastime into a source of scientific innovation, using the art of origami ... paper as well as Lang? Several of his elaborate crease patterns are available ...