In addition to being great artists, I also learned dynamic programming from this guy via his outstanding lectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp4_UXaVyx8&list=PLJl4xQazDg...
It looks like there's a more recent series as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4-cftqTcdI
Le Klint makes hand folded curved lamp shades that are prtty neat. They have workshops to teach people how to do it, too.
https://www.leklint.com/collections/pendants/products/le-kli...
Curved creases aside, the fact that folding a piece of paper gives you a straight line is itself quite amazing and deep.
Even if I couldn't trust a cheap ruler, a straight edge is a piece of paper away.
These remind me of the Elliptic Curve pieces from another post on the HN front page right now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44315321) I wonder if the poster was inspired by that one to also post these here?
Anyway, these are pretty cool/unique looking! I hadn't seen curved origami like this before.
This duo must have the most fun job in all academia.
For folks interested in folding and origami, the documentary Between the Folds was excellent. I don't know if anyone recorded a Q&A when it did the film festival circuit, but if you could find one, it'd be worth watching.
The force from curved folds can be used in other ways. If you score a sheet of copper in a curved line, then fold it along the score you get a twisted form. If you have some poster board handy you can use the same technique as well. Vessels!
Wow, I never realized you could create such intricate and beautiful structures with origami. This is seriously impressive work!
Wonderful, a nice meeting place between modern and classical art. Arguably one of the most alluring features of classical art is the complexity and intricacy of detail.
I don't know what I expected to see, but the site was full of ... Curved-Crease Sculptures ...
Beautiful just the same!
> There is a surprisingly old history to curved-crease sculpture, going back to the 1920s at the Bauhaus.
That's surprisingly recent.
Now let's ask our not-yet-AGI robots to fold origami and we will see how far they go...
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Eric Demaine is one of the better intersections of origami and mathematics, you should also read up on Dr Robert Lang, the OG and perhaps the most famous American JPL-physicist-turned-origamist: https://langorigami.com/
On the flip side the late Eric Joisel created perhaps the most amazing curved-crease and natural folding that we’ll ever see, his works were truly amazing art: https://ericjoisel.fr/en/home/