How can you create a doughnut-shaped surface from a flat sheet of paper? The most elegant solution is probably to use the art of paper folding called origami. Mathematician Richard Schwartz of Brown ...

Origami, the ancient art of paper folding, is taking a futuristic turn with the work of Cynthia Sung at the University of Pennsylvania. Supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation Faculty Early ...

A square sheet of patterned paper becomes a charming candy box with a few folds, glue, and string, making it a simple craft for party favors and homemade gifts.

Novelino holds a paper model of a structure made from origami engineering. When Larissa Novelino began her engineering career, she never imagined she’d spend her days folding paper. “I was never the ...

IntroductionYou connect pieces of paper folded into the same shape one by one. What started as flat components begin to hold the adjacent pieces, and when the final gap is closed, it becomes a small ...

Bloom patterns could be useful, as engineers build folding structures to send to outer space. They’re also very pretty. Researchers have now found a new class of origami that they call bloom patterns, ...

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