Origami, or the art of paper folding, finds its roots in Japanese tradition, where it is widely practiced even today. Drawing inspiration from this traditional art form, an emerging field of ...

Now an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Rice University, Novelino has built her research on a ...

Some pioneers in the field of computational origami believe they can apply the math behind paper folding to help decode the "bad" protein folds thought to cause diseases from Alzheimer's to mad cow.

“The origami-inspired ideas really help us to see how to make things smaller and smaller and to make them simpler and simpler.” One such instrument is a robotically-controlled forceps so small it can ...

With this burgeoning field of origami-inspired-design, the question is: can the mathematics of origami be boiled down to one elegant algorithm—a fail-proof guidebook to make any object out of a ...

With this burgeoning field of origami-inspired-design, the question is: can the mathematics of origami be boiled down to one elegant algorithm—a fail-proof guidebook to make any object out of a ...