Origami

Why origami• Electric Origami - Just as a magician appears to create

objects out of “thin air,” students will create three dimensional structures from two dimensional materials and then bring them to life to with digital electronics.

• Creativity and formalism, the combination of which allows us to both build on the work of others and share our contributions. – Folding instructions– 3D drawings– Electrical schematics

Origami Formalism

• Folding diagrams

Origami Formalism• Folding patterns

Robert Lang uses a computer program called TreeMaker to design his creations and a laser cutter to gently score the paper for quicker & easier folding.

A little origami history

• Origami: "Ori" is the Japanese word for folding and "kami" is the Japanese word for paper.

• It began in China in the first or second century– Japan in the sixth century

• For centuries there were no written directions for folding origami

• In 1797, How to Fold 1000 Cranes was published the first written set of origami instructions for folding a crane

More Recent Origami• For centuries, origami patterns had at most

thirty steps; now they can have hundreds• Complex origami is also more practical• Folding techniques applied to many things– medical, electrical, optical, or nanotechnical

devices, strands of DNA – Applications with fixed size and shape but needing

to be packed tightly and in an orderly way• Mitsubishi commercial• David Hart

Getting started

• Make a crane – Interactive instructions– YouTube– Folding diagram on the next slide– Crease pattern:

The bird base

Folding diagram Symbols

Something new

Something modular

• Simple Origami Cube