As a girl in Shanghai, China, Nancy Bjorge kept her fingers busy folding tiny paper boats. The shapes signified ingots, she says, and her grandmother pressed her to produce them by the hundreds.

With a few folds, brightly-colored squares of paper transform into animals, birds, flowers, and trees. More talented origami enthusiasts also use their skills to create original works based on popular ...

Michael G. LaFosse has been an origami artist for over four decades and co-founded Origamido Studio, a unique destination for a variety of paper art and origami resources that serves as a hybrid ...

Sun Oct 27, 2024 04:15 PM Last update on: Sun Oct 27, 2024 04:26 PM Origami is a diverse array of folding techniques, each with its unique vocabulary and looks. Traditional designs include a square ...

Origami — the art of making various shapes from a single piece of paper — has been realized at the nanoscale using DNA. Sheets of ‘DNA wireframe paper’ have been developed that, through folding along ...

Joe Scullion shares his folded creations with young and old Like many children, Joe Scullion knew a bit about origami, the Japanese art of paper folding. As a child, he’d even folded some simple ...

Back in 1999, Erik Demaine was a PhD student who created an algorithm that determined the folding patterns necessary to turn a piece of paper into any 3D shape. However, the algorithm was far from ...