DailyDirt: Extreme Origami
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
Almost any hobby can be taken a bit too seriously, depending on how enthusiastic its practitioners really are. Origami has some extremely cool applications (eg. unfolding solar panels in space, trisecting angles), and it’s being studied by mathematicians just for fun. Even if you’ve only folded paper planes, here are some interesting origami links for you.
- MIT is just one institution that studies origami and has a club dedicated to folding stuff. Apparently, the first rule of OrigaMIT is not to not talk about OrigaMIT. [url]
- The history of curved origami is covered by the folks at Makezine. MacArthur fellow Erik Demaine goes over some curved origami scuptures dating back to the 1920s. [url]
- An ‘origami robot’ can fold itself into various shapes all by itself. It’s too bad GPS devices have made self-folding maps somewhat obsolete…. [url]
- To discover more interesting crafts, check out what’s currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]
By the way, StumbleUpon can recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.
Comments on “DailyDirt: Extreme Origami”
Proteins
If you are looking for something that folds, check out protein. Incredibly fast and complex. Folding at Home is all about that.
http://folding.stanford.edu/
I wonder when the guys who made the ‘origami robot’ will be sued for copyright infringement.
Origami
Slow news day much?
Tool To Help Construct Origami Designs
I don?t think TreeMaker quite generates the complete set of folds for you, but it helps you to work it out.
For Those Wondering About the Practical Use Of All This...
… consider the Miura fold, which was developed out of the mathematical study of Origami. By a Japanese researcher, of course…
Wait… has origami really solved the ‘trisect an angle’ problem? That was proven impossible with a compass and straightedge. Does the addition of ‘folding’ give the ability to perform a trisection?
Trisecting An Angle
Well, you see, folding paper is nothing like working with a compass and straightedge. So yes, the things you can do with one are not like the things you can do with the other.