Origami principles are now used in a wide variety of applications–from the design of satellites, to heart stents ... can help make a 3-D object out of flat (sometimes basically 2-D) materials.

At heart, mathematics is about understanding ... It turns out that the crease patterns of flat origami models have some very special properties. One of them is called Maekawa's Theorem: at every ...

Such materials would be useful in a wide variety of applications, including running shoes, heart stents ... When considering origami-inspired materials, physicists start with a flat sheet that's ...

The rules of folding are at the heart of many ... can the mathematics of origami be boiled down to one elegant algorithm—a fail-proof guidebook to make any object out of a flat surface, just ...

Hull] and [Inna Zakharevich]’s Turing complete origami computer. Starting with the constraint of flat origami (the paper folds back on top of itself), the researchers designed a system that ...

At heart, mathematics is about understanding ... It turns out that the crease patterns of flat origami models have some very special properties. One of them is called Maekawa’s Theorem: at ...