Origamicolloquium2 17 12
Origamicolloquium2 17 12
Angela Kohlhaas
Loras College
February 17, 2012
Introduction
Origami
ori + kami, “folding paper”
Tools: one uncut square of paper, mountain and valley folds
Goal: create art with elegance, balance, detail
Outline
History
Applications
Foldability
Design
History of Origami
105 A.D.: Invention of paper in China
Paper-folding begins shortly after in China, Korea, Japan
800s: Japanese develop basic models for ceremonial folding
1200s: Origami globalized throughout Japan
1682: Earliest book to describe origami
1797: How to fold 1,000 cranes published
1954: Yoshizawa’s book formalizes a notational system
1940s-1960s: Origami popularized in the U.S. and
throughout the world
History of Origami Mathematics
1893: Geometric exercises in paper folding by Row
1936: Origami first analyzed according to axioms by Beloch
1989-present:
Huzita-Hatori axioms
Flat-folding theorems: Maekawa, Kawasaki, Justin, Hull
TreeMaker designed by Lang
Origami sekkei – “technical origami”
Rigid origami
Applications from the large to very small
Miura-Ori
Japanese solar sail
“Eyeglass” space telescope
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Science of the small
Heart stents
Titanium hydride printing
DNA origami
Protein-folding
Two broad categories
No self-intersections
A face cannot penetrate another face
A face cannot penetrate a fold
A fold cannot penetrate a fold
Kite Fish
base base
Bird Frog
base base
Classic bases
Kite Fish
base base
Bird Frog
base base
Adding appendages
TreeMaker examples
Margulis Napkin Problem