Paper Origami

So realistic that some people threaten to stomp on them, these paper models, virtually unfoldable 20 years ago,origami flower represent a new frontier in origami. No longer limited to traditional birds and boats, origami—the art of paper folding—is evolving artistically and technologically, thanks to a small but growing number of mathematicians and scientists around the world, including. What's more, this group believes the ancient art holds elegant solutions to problems in fields as diverse as automobile safety, space science, architecture, robotics, manufacturing and medicine.

pioneer in technical and computational origami,paper folding art
which focuses on the mathematics behind the art. "He's the Renaissance man of origami,A lot of people who come from the science end are mostly interested in origami as a problem to be solved. His work is very intriguing because he has combined art and math. His signature is a high degree of reality with a breath of life."

Lang has created or breathed life into more than 495 intricate new origami models, some requiring hundreds of folds: paper origami turtles with patterned shells, raptors with textured feathers, a rattlesnake with 1,000 scales and a tick the size of a popcorn kernel. His masterpiece, first created in 1987 complete with pendulum, pine cones and stag's head. It is so complex that Lang was asked to demonstrate its folding on Japanese television—a task that took five hours. origami art Most of these works adhere to one deceptively simple requirement—the use of a single sheet of paper with no cuts or tears.

who has authored or co-authored eight books on origami, has exhibited pieces in art galleries and at origami conventions, he spent a week as artist-in-residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),origami paper craft where his lectures drew standing-room-only audiences of paper folders and math and computer-science students. This past September, he organized the Fourth International Conference on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education,origami ball held at the California Institute of Technology.

"One of the things that's really unusual about him is his intuition for paper and his technical acuity at folding it who studies
all types of folding and is a frequent collaborator "When he works on a problem, he usually can see the solution