MIT professor Erik Demaine created a new field of science by combining his passions for mathematics and origami — the Japanese art of folding. He calls it computational origami. It helps scientists ...

“Computational Origami” is technically a triptych of paper art which is now part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). In the three-part work, each piece is connected ...

SANTA CRUZ – Origami and complex mathematical shapes have one thing in common: both require folding. UC Santa Cruz will host an exhibit on the art and mathematics of origami April 8 at the Eloise ...

Robert Lang, a laser physicist and origami artist for more than 30 years, continues to be amazed at the potential applications of the centuries-old art of paper folding. “You would think that there is ...

They say if you fold 1,000 origami cranes out of individual sheets of paper your deepest wishes will be granted. I tried it once - I was a lonely college kid - and I ended up with pink eye. However, a ...

The news this week that 22-year-old Canadian scientist Erik Demaine had won a $500,000 (U.S.) MacArthur Foundation "genius" award partly for research into "computational origami" may have evoked more ...

Professor Uehara from JAIST works at the intersection of theoretical computer science, discrete mathematics, and the art of solving puzzles. His research strives to understand the computational ...

Kids, computational origami is something you can do on your own. That’s what James Colovos and John Reid, two juniors at the Albuquerque Public Schools Career Enrichment Center, discovered over the ...

SANTA CRUZ – Intricate dragons and poison dart frogs folded from paper join complex sculptures of concentric circles in a new exhibit that looks at the interface of origami and mathematics. Origami: ...