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Computational Origami Takes A Big Leap Forward
BBC Knowledge
|October 2017
An MIT professor of computer science and an assistant professor in civil engineering at the University of Tokyo have joined forces to come up with a better way of… making paper rabbits.
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Or rather, they have created an algorithm that enables the creation of any 3D shape from a single sheet of a given material.
MIT’s Prof Erik Demaine has previous experience in this area: his 1999 PhD thesis described the same thing. The difference, though, is that his previous algorithm essentially involved taking a long, thin strip of paper or other material and winding it into the desired shape. Thi
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