![]() ![]() Origami expert Jun Maekawa points out that in many traditional origami models, the colored top surface becomes the outside and the bottom of the sheet becomes the inside, and so as a consequence, the origami has the same topology as a blastula. Origami seems to be an ideal medium for mimicking the shapes and forms found in nature. Similar to how living animals develop from the confines of a single cell that divides, an origami model begins as creases within the bounds of a sheet of paper. The basic act of folding is one of the transformations: The mere placement of creases on a flat sheet allows for nearly any imaginable three-dimensional animal or plant or abstract form to be created-an act almost as magical as life springing out from a seed. An origami begins by developing a pattern of creases in a sheet of paper the folds allow the flat sheet of paper to be reconfigured into different geometric forms. Inspired by over a thousand years of tradition and innovation in paper folding, modern scientists and engineers have gained a new appreciation for origami design -as folding solutions in paper seem to translate upward to the scale of buildings and downward to the scale of molecules. The simple act of folding the sheet, something so seemingly obvious you might not think to give it a name, began to organically grow into the elegant art form we today call ‘Origami’. The invention of folded paper is likely to have arrived very shortly after the invention of paper. ![]()
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