Origami, the ancient art of Japanese paper folding, is used extensively in creating scientific and engineering products that rely on careful packing and unpacking.
Origami is not just for a thousand paper cranes any longer. . .
Space Station and satellite shields and solar arrays must be carefully packed for the trip to space then unpacked once in orbit.
These giant panels start out in paper and computer models.
Robert Lang is a leader in the field of origami applications. This excellent 5-minute video shows Lang and others from Brigham Young University, UT, and the myriad origami-inspired creations.
The movement in these origami unpackings is often quite graceful.
One Christmas, Zoë made me a thousand origami cranes. That was a wonderful, graceful unpacking!
Do you use origami, either for fun and/or scientific/engineering purposes?
Origami is not just for a thousand paper cranes any longer. . .
Space Station and satellite shields and solar arrays must be carefully packed for the trip to space then unpacked once in orbit.
These giant panels start out in paper and computer models.
Robert Lang is a leader in the field of origami applications. This excellent 5-minute video shows Lang and others from Brigham Young University, UT, and the myriad origami-inspired creations.
In addition, origami inspired microscopic folds in medical products, on the order of nanometers.
The movement in these origami unpackings is often quite graceful.
One Christmas, Zoë made me a thousand origami cranes. That was a wonderful, graceful unpacking!
Do you use origami, either for fun and/or scientific/engineering purposes?
Time to fold,
Steph
Today, the Brown "Tourmalion" Marble in the elevator made me smile. I like both tourmaline and tourmalion, roar. . . ;-)
