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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