Japan's traditional papercraft, origami, has come to be used in engineering, as researchers observe insects and other ...

BYU’s Compliant Mechanisms Research lab recently completed a five-year project for the U.S. Air Force, developing designs for ...

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They began with the Miura fold, an origami pattern that was originally developed for a completely different purpose—compactly packing up solar panels to power satellites (once they’re in space ...

Of particular interest is that the crease pattern for the origami-like folds can be laser cut into a material, cardboard or thin acrylic for example, which can be used as a guide to create the ...

Fynn Jackson creates these intricate origami faces. They're made by improvising folds with paper. Once a crease pattern is finalized, he'll create a folding guide. This kinetic display moves like ...

6 DNA origami is a nanoscale DNA folding technique whereby long ... of Watson-Crick base pairing to determine which sequences were needed to instruct the scaffold strand to fold into the desired shape ...